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J. WestfallSet Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Serverhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6966-4_7

7. Basics of Server Software Administration

Jon Westfall1  
(1)
Cleveland, MS, USA
 
A VPS is really only useful if it provides services to you that enrich your productivity and professional life. In this chapter, we’re going to talk about several possible services that your VPS can provide, through the installation of various servers. At first this may seem strange in that, thus far, we’ve used the term “server” to refer to the entire VPS. However, technically any software that provides a service to a client is a server; thus, many of the products we will talk ...

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