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_9

9. Administrator’s Weekly Checklist

Jon Westfall¹  

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Cleveland, MS, USA

 

Perhaps no subject in server administration is as tedious and annoying as “preventive maintenance.” After all, you aren’t actually doing anything “cool” when you do this. You aren’t creating a new service that will make your life better, and you certainly aren’t going to be recognized for all of your hard work since the whole point of the exercise is to avoid anything that would be noticed later – namely, your system going down in a metaphorical puff of smoke. So it’s probably not surprising ...