in the olden days, people would buy Frisch's oreilly book, or the nemeth /snyder/hein linux admin books. Still good picks, but a lot to work through. You prob

in the olden days, people would buy Frisch's oreilly book, or the nemeth /snyder/hein linux admin books. Still good picks, but a lot to work through. You probably want tutorials/recipes based on your deploy platform: PHP, rails, django each have a bunch. Ezra Z's rails deployment book is outstanding. And a bunch of threads have gone over the Freebsd/OpenBSD, non-BSD choices, look in searchyc.com http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=197878 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=197878 http://searchyc.com/ubuntu+fedora http://searchyc.com/ubuntu+fedora