Let me define a few terms in the IT world: Hackers: Used to be known as the seedy, dodgy guys in films who break PCs. Nowadays hackers are the elite programmers who can turn Lead into Gold and such. Crackers: Always considered “bad”, and now taken on the original definition of hacker. Crackers break things [...]

Couple of posts ago I mentioned a new VPS. I’ve been working with a cPanel VPS in work for a long time now, and ran WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) self-configured at home so I was fairly confident I could install and run a basic system on the VPS with my own control panel… Wrong. [...]

I thought it was about time I upped my game in hosting solutions, so I just bought myself a gift – a VPS. I guess it’s about time I brushed up on my bash. Lets see how they go…