[Ilugc] Suggestion for budding GNU/Linux Administrators - Buy a VPS
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:51:50 +0530
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com> wrote:
Recently, one of my friend, who is practising GNU/Linux, struggled a lot
to do some activities in only of my production servers.
Reason: No expereince in production servers.
Though he is a RHCE guy, he has all the theory knowledge and very less
practical knowledge
on working with email servers, firewall etc.
Although, the "School of Hard Knocks" is the best way to learn
practical things, there are ways to train/coach yourself on
maintaining servers on the WAN.
Before jumping into managing servers on the WAN, it would behoove to
study best practices and join a few 'global' mailing lists on the
different distros and read the postings therein. I learnt a lot this
way w/o any CapEx (even @ $5/month) except for my time :)
Secondly, with hardware virtualization a lot can be learnt by creating
virtual networks + VMs. With backtrack you can do pen testing.
I suggested him to buy a VPS and practise all the stuff he has learnt.
https://www.digitalocean.com gives 5$/month VPS.
It seems so cheap and will give good experience for beginners.
I would recommend this as the third stage, when the person is
comfortable with rummaging through log files (or reports from tools)
i.e. mental preparedness. On the WAN, the types of attacks a system
is subjected to, can be overwhelming even to a seasoned admin.
--
Arun Khan
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