A good tutorial for managing a server/VPS?

[Grizzly]

Yes, VPS's should come with MySQL, a mail, and FTP all set up for you. Generally if you get cPanel you get WHM along with it on a VPS, which makes managing the server a whole lot easier. It's quite easy to do a VPS reboot if something is going crazy (usually a reboot takes care of a lot of issues). The management thing really depends on the server tbh. And the amount of traffic you have going to it. Sometimes you will run into issues and sometimes everything runes fine lol.