Is renting a VPS a good idea to practise using the Linux terminal?

Mihai B. · Sep 16, 2016

There are many VPS offers on this forum and i can select one for testing purpose. I recently installed Ubuntu and started learning the terminal after my website got issues with current web host last time. I think it is better to improve my hosting skill by renting a VPS to practise. What do you guys think about this idea?

VirtuBox · Sep 16, 2016

Yes that's the best way to have good performances for cheap price.
To learn how to use Ubuntu/Debian or Centos, you can use VMware Player or VirtualBox to create a small VPS on your computer. So by connecting the VM to your local network, you will be able to connect it using SSH and to install what you want. Just make a copy of the VM to reinstall it when you want

LJSHost · Sep 16, 2016

I was also suggest creating a vps on your own computer to learn the basics. If you have a dedicated IP at the connection you are using you can use your vps as a real server.
To be honest a low end vps is very cheap and you will have your server online 24/7 for you to learn with and host sites on.

CyberHour · Sep 16, 2016

If you get your VPS from hosting provider who will config and install Control Panel (cPanel or Webuzo/InterWorx) like we do with our plans, then you won't really need to start learning Linux (except basic commands maybe).

The idea to get VPS is not bad at all, linux is powerful OS and of course VPS are OP vs cheap shared hosting.

GswHosting · Sep 19, 2016

If you want to learn using ssh and configure linux and other staff like: installing LAMP, security and installing email server/client. You can use VM on your Personal Computer, even you can put your VM linux public (with static-dedicated ip address or with some dns find on net).
Or you can rent some unmanaged VPS Like OpenVZ for 10$/mo, and ask support to tell you where you made mistake.

StackNetwork · Sep 21, 2016

Renting a VPS to learn Linux terminal isn't bad idea, however you can just install a virtualization environment like VirtualBox, Hyper-V and create a VM by yourself, it's free and you get full access which means you can do anything you want.

Since you are just learning Linux terminal, and not doing business related things, I would not rent a VPS if I were you.

GswHosting · Sep 22, 2016

My bad. Sorry I'll edit my post

fwh · Sep 23, 2016

Mihai B. said:
There are many VPS offers on this forum and i can select one for testing purpose. I recently installed Ubuntu and started learning the terminal after my website got issues with current web host last time. I think it is better to improve my hosting skill by renting a VPS to practise. What do you guys think about this idea?

Obviously this is a good idea to check somethings (server configurations, installing addons, apps, software...etc) for your real websites running on the internet or gaining your web hosting skills. I'm also having 2 VPS packages for testing but I only use one for this purpose. Sometime we could use VPS that host real websites to check because if do some wrong configurations it can affect to your visitors or your websites when appearing errors.

Don't hesitate to go with your idea, it is a cool idea, buy a VPS package on the forum and check whatever you want before applying them to your running.

Luxin Host · Sep 23, 2016

As mentioned above, its always a good idea to first install Ubuntu on your local computer using VM. This means no costs what so ever, you can test what ever you want on it with no limitations and also resting it should be no problem.

Once you become more advance and learnt the fundamentals then it would be a good idea to get a cheap VPS and try out everything on a live server.

vpsrus · Mar 4, 2017

I believe the OP is a little confuse about virtualization, OS, etc... Let me try to explain in simple words:

There are 2 ways for you to install OS (operating system) one is using a software called VirtualBox you can download and install on your windows machine for virtualization then you will have to learn how to configure and also how to deal with OS ISOs (images), it is a good experience if you want to learn virtualization also you will have to deal with which Linux flavor you want to install on the VirtualBox, there are tons of Linux flavor the most known and used are Centos/REH and Debian/Ubuntu you will have to download them and install it.

Now if your intention is to learn only Linux I would say to you to rent a cheap VPS as a VPS comes with a control panel where you can choose what kind of Linux you want to install and learn, that is right they are different they in the end does the same but they have complete different commands and their files are locate in a different places.

What is the advantage that you have with a VPS:
You can install one flavor of the Linux and study then you go to your control panel choose another and reinstall with one click and you can check the difference between them.

Hope this help you to decided what to do.

ServerHand · Mar 5, 2017

You can try installing Virtualbox for free and downloading ubuntu ISO and then mount it and learn the process from start to finish of installing Linux as well. Virtualbox is free and you could try multiple OSs as well. You might find you like one Linux vs another.

StackArcVPS · Apr 11, 2017

Get yourself a VPS already. though virtualbox is an option but to test in real environment u could go with any cheap vps service and try and test your skills and refine them more and more. there is a lot to learn.

rocket · Apr 14, 2017

Personally I started with an old machine I had laying around, moved to a VM on my PC if I wanted to try something quickly then moved to a VPS.

I'd recommend grabbing a cheap yearly KVM based VPS (so you can play around with different kernels etc) and play around with it. In fact, something like the Vultr $2.50 would be pretty good for learning with, I've not tried them personally though.

If you're not looking to spend anything stick with Virtual Box on your own machine.

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