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I have experimented with quite a few vps (virtual private server) systems. My typical setup is pretty simple. I use my server mostly for a mail server and for simple web pages. The main load is heavy spam filtering which taxes a small vps. One solution is to use your vps only as a mail/web server and do the anti-virus (clamav) and spam filtering at your local lever (with another linux server). This works well using fetchmail to pull mail from the vps server.

The various vps venders I have tried seem to provide varying levels of support and hardware. The competition is very high right now so you should be able to get a very fast system with decent bandwidth (300-500 gb/mo) for not too much money.

More to follow.

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Here is my favorite bash prompt (put it in .bash_profile).

PS1=”\$(pwd) hostname ->”

substitute hostname for your real hostname

This gives you a prompt like this:

/root hostname -> (ie shows complete path and hostname wherever you cd)

tech ramblings

I am running Centos 5 on my remote servers however, I always have at least one local server running Slack. The new Slackware 12 looks very good.

It has all the lastest and now includes the 2.6.21 kernel as the default..

Great going Pat!

tech ramblings