How steep is the learning curve when moving from shared (cPanel) webhosting to a VPS (e.g. Linode)?
- by pax
In all shared hosting environments, one can be agnostic to the running OS. What happens in the case of Linode?
I know it allows pretty flexible Linux installations, but for starters, besides choosing a distro, does one need to do more Linux sysadmin stuff besides the basic web hosting (DNS management, MySql database creations, users ftp/ssh access/ backups)?
Does Linode have a module that would cover cPanel's basic features?
Does one need to install/start/upgrade each aspect of LAMP (software bundle)?