Set Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Server: Making System Administration Accessible to Professionals

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J. WestfallSet Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Serverhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6966-4_1

1. What Is a Virtual Private Server?

Jon Westfall¹  

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Cleveland, MS, USA

 

Let me share a story with you that illustrates what this book can do for you in terms of personal productivity. In other words, how you can save yourself time, money, stress, and more by learning the skills this book introduces. Join me on a journey into a “psychology professor’s” life for a moment.

Several months ago I had a problem, and my solution was a bit unorthodox. The problem was that people were always asking me for computer help, which was somewhat understandable since I am the ...