A good tutorial for managing a server/VPS?

[immi]

Yes I will also recommend you http://www.howtoforge.com/ as Jamza said. They have plenty of resources for VPS sites.

[Grizzly]

No problem Tim glad I could be of help

[manipulate]

I recommend just getting a totally unmanaged VPS from linode or something and just doing it all yourself, you learn a lot more...seriously.

[Grizzly]

The thing is, when something goes wrong and he doesn't know how to fix it, he's going to be screwed.

[manipulate]

That's why you have Google.

[Grizzly]

And Google doesn't have an answer to every question you have. On top of that, if you get a managed server most hosts will also monitor it for you, however, if you get an unmanaged a lot of times you're going to be flapping in the wind, with really the only thing you can do to monitor it is but a monitoring service for http, ftp, etc. and use the top command.

But hey, whatever you say.