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Just got a good VPS deal with Dual Virtual Core/CentOS/150G/1gb ram/2 IPs. But cPanel is out of my reach. As such I am new to VPS with good knowledge of cPanel shared hosting. Was using RH few years back and am using and comfortable with LAMP on Ubuntu at present. I have time and taste to learn Unix from server end.

My Questions are:

  1. I will be hosting around 10 Drupal sites with reasonable amount of traffic. Will the above specs be sufficient?
  2. My Host can install any free panel like Kloxo, VHCS etc. First of all, do I really need a panel to manage VPS? If I can manage without a control panel, what do I need to know? Can I accomplish it over period by first using CentOS on my local machine?

Any link to primer/tutorial OR a brief book to jump start is welcome.

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consider selecting an accepted answer – AbiusX Mar 28 '11 at 18:36
"10 Drupal sites with reasonable amount of traffic" with 1 GB RAM?!? You can't be serious. – HTTP500 Sep 21 '11 at 23:08
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Do I really need a panel to manage VPS?

Nope, all you need is a shell prompt.

What do I need to know?

I'd start by learning how to configure Apache, particularly vhosts.

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You could live without a panel, but its a huge pain. You need to almost know everything about a CentOS box and of course about servers.

The major problem would be security, of course since you can't know much security.

BTW if you're intending to have only ten sites, you can live without a panel, just setup a LAMP, CSF (firewall), learn some httpd.conf (apache configuration) and MySQL configuration (mostly for separation of user access)

Keep in mind that most of the time a panel is needed by customers since they don't know much about tech (usually) but if you're setting up the sites yourself, its ok.

Free control panels (like Kloxo) are not trustworthy. Kloxo developer performed suicide cuz his software ruined many servers when a huge security bug was found.

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Thank you Abius – Moonglade Mar 28 '11 at 7:45
It's only a huge pain until you learn your way around. Once you've learned, you're more secure and faster without a panel. A big -1 for the scaremongering about free panels. There can be big security bugs in non-free panels, too, and you're less likely to be able to find them. – ceejayoz Sep 21 '11 at 21:09
Well ceejayoz, you should know that you're not the only one using the panel, but your hosting users are :) they can't be more fast and secure without one. – AbiusX Oct 10 '11 at 20:01
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