[QCLUG] VPS setup

[Juanita Moore]

That WAS a really good story, wasn't it??!  I hadn't gotten around to 
telling Mark, that, tho . . .  :-( 

THANKS, Mark, for the cute story!

In the meantime, I've hammered on this hard enough, and long enough, to 
finally get a page up *live*!  Whew! I really am not at all impressed 
with the minimal "manuals" they keep pointing people to.  Even their 
silly animated tutorials leave a lot to be desired.  The one about using 
the file manager, well, duh, it's all pretty transparent--what was  NOT 
well demonstrated was changing directories (it's mentioned in passing 
which dir the index file has to be), yeah, clicking on it is not enough, 
even tho it then shows up in the right column! NO, ya gotta bang on the 
folder itself, not the name.  Sometimes gui's leave a lot to be desired, 
but I'm not versed enough to do more than minimal command line stuff. 
Pingability says there are still problems . . .

It would sure help if instructions were in one place, but one must go 
here, there, and everywhere to ferret out tidbits.  Thankfully, I found 
a sticky in a forum that was in plain English, so I finally realized 
that the domain he bought could be not only the hostname, but also the 
nameserver!  Still getting some weird messages when I try to add an A 
entry for the nameservers.  Guess I'll have to try their support, when 
I'm not so tired and can express myself better.

Juanita


Jim Hall wrote:

>
>>
>> Thank you!  Guess so far, no one is objecting to posting here?  I'm 
>> sure someone will tell me.  I like having an open forum, if 
>> possible--used to be BBS's--to allow more input.
>>
>> Juanita
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> Objecting? Hell, no! If anyone winds up learning something, then we're 
> doing good stuff. Besides, where else could you get a story about 
> pancakes to explain name servers??? Linux is SUPPOSED to be fun!
>
> Jim
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