Moving on from our previous post where we set up an objective storage, S3, bucket at Linode/Akamai… Now we are ready to schedule backups of our Virtualmin server into the bucket. The first thing we need to do is to add the S3 account to Virtualmin. From the left menu...

Whatever you do with your Virtualmin server, you're gonna want to make sure it gets backed-up regularly. One of the safest, and most cost-effective ways to do that is to use S3 or object storage "buckets" at an off-site provider. Here I'm going to show you how to set...

So now that you have Virtualmin installed and up and running, here's a few things you may want to do to tweak the system just a little. I'm not offering any opinion on whether these changes are advised or ill-advised. But they are things that I generally do, for...

Go-ahead and create your account. Once that's done you may be a page with a bunch of funky squares. If so, click on "Explore Our Control Panel". You should get a page that looks something like this: Now you can click on that first image or the link "Spin up a...

The first time you login to Virtualmin you're going to be greeted with the post-installation wizard. It looks something like this: Go ahead and click next. The first question asks if Virtualmin should run an email domain lookup server. If your server is going to be...

In order to get started I'm just going to assume you already have an account at Linode/Akamai and you own a couple domain names. Blah blah blah blah blah… Let's just get started! When you log into your Linode/Akamai account you'll see something like this: Click on the...

Nearly all of the low cost hosting available is considered "shared" hosting. What that means is your website(s) and data are stored on the same operating system installation as other people's [websites and data.] Your data is protected by the security features of the...

Okay. Real quick. I'll tell you my story. I've been hosting websites and online services for at least 20 years. Generally, the way it's always been done, was that your hosting provider (GoDaddy, NameCheap, Linode/Akamai, etc) would have a deal with some "panel"...