Beginner VPS

[nietdanNL]

Hello,

I've recently got my hands on my first VPS, it's Debian Lenny powered, 500mhz cpu, 512mb ram (2gb burstable), 50 gb diskspace and 100gb bandwith.

I was hoping to someone in the community could point me to the right direction so that I can use it for my purposes below. . (With pointing I mean link me to a recommended tutorials etc.)

Basically I would like the ability to do that following things:
Managing FTP accounts.
Managing multiple websites (virtual host, apache, mysql, php)
Create email account
Managing DNS settings

If you would recommend any (free) control panel, then I will be pleased to hear so.

Kind regards,
Martijn

nietdanNL Reviewed by nietdanNL on 20th Mar 2010. Beginner VPS Hello, I've recently got my hands on my first VPS, it's Debian Lenny powered, 500mhz cpu, 512mb ram (2gb burstable), 50 gb diskspace and 100gb bandwith. I was hoping to someone in the community could point me to the right direction so that I can use it for my purposes below. :). (With pointing I mean link me to a recommended tutorials etc.) Basically I would like the ability to do that following things: Managing FTP accounts. Managing multiple websites (virtual host, apache, mysql, Rating: 5

[shubhank008]

Install CPanel for $13/month
You can get a free trial for 15 days and after that pay $13/month for license.
Its easiest AIO solution for all your needs

[nietdanNL]

I'm familiar with CPanel, infortuantly I currently don't have any money availeble to purchase it. I have forgotten to say in the main post to tell that free control panel recommendations are welcome.

[shubhank008]

Use kloxo

[nietdanNL]

I've just looked at the kloxo website, and I saw that it installs everything for you. Including apache etc, isn't that dangerous for security?

[shubhank008]

Nope.
If you have hypervm, just rebuild vps into host in a box OS template

[sniffdog]

Kloxo is good, but you need CENTos .... I am not sure if it runs on Debian .. almost sure it doesn't.

Ask your provider to install it for you .. they should have a template available.

[nietdanNL]

I can choose in my control panel which os I want to be installed. Then it will reinstall within 5 minutes so that isn't a problem.

I'm also leaning towards webmin, which I've seen before. I only can't seem to figure out how to create email accounts with it.

[shubhank008]

Webmin sux !
Using hypervm rebuild your vps into kloxo host in a box and you will get kloxo installed with cent OS 5

[nietdanNL]

Installing kloxo now, need to learn ypu instead of apt-get. Not sure if I will stick with it though. Any suggestions for debian 5.0 are still welcome.