Running My Own Virtual Server

[glennk]

I need to get away from my current cloud hosts who are, to put it mildly, abysmal. I have been looking at signing up with a company although today I found anohter company offering what looks to be a good package at a very cheap price.

The thing is, the latter would not have cpanel and I dont know the first thing about running my own server. How easy is it ? How much would it cost to buy a cpanel or plesk licence and how easy is it for me to put it on there.

Cheers in advance

[edited by: eelixduppy at 6:31 pm (utc) on Feb 15, 2010]
[edit reason] removed host specifics [/edit]

[wheel]

How easy is it ?

Not easy. If you're a cpanel kind of person, find someone that has cpanel.

Running your own server has it's advantages, but there's a huge learning curve and many disadvantages. It's not something you should do just to save a couple of bucks - You'll be unhappy the first time you need to figure out how to add a site to apache. Heck, you'll be unhappy the first time you try to figure out how to install cpanel.

[J_RaD]

yea, there is no way you are going be able to jump from cpanel user to server admin. The 1000 things you have to keep up with running a server do not translate in anyway to managing a site thru cpanel

[Gomvents]

glennk I'd recommend a VPS with WHM / Cpanel already set up for you.

[outland88]

I'd go with the suggested VPS solution if they have enough help for you. Some don't.