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_2

2. Selecting a VPS Provider

Jon Westfall¹  

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Cleveland, MS, USA

 

Often when shopping for any product, we are somewhat bound by a physical or well-delineated space. If you’re purchasing a car, you go to a car lot or find a website that has the word “auto” or “car” in the name. If you’re looking to hire someone to perform a service, you typically have various physical businesses you can visit (e.g., a locksmith, a temporary worker agency) or easy-to-define search terms that you can use on your search engine of choice (e.g., “unlock my car” or “house cleaning”). ...