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I don't really have a goal with it other than I like messing with it and I do want to have a VPS to host my sites in the future and develop apps. So that'd be a

I don't really have a goal with it other than I like messing with it and I do want to have a VPS to host my sites in the future and develop apps. So that'd be a "not right now" for the job, and kind of a mix of "hosting your own site" and "devops guy at a startup". haha :) I'll setup a virtualbox for it, that will probably be the easiest. :) Thanks for the exercises! I'm having to use vim (or vi) for the little things I do on a VPS I got. Oh and, I have used SVN, Mercurial, and Git. I mainly stick with Git (or mercurial) because of the free private repos bitbucket offers. Thanks a ton! :) I really appreciate it!

pilom 14y ago
Looks like you're off to a good start. Given your goals, the one thing I'd add is to get familiar with the Configuration Management tools like Nagios and Puppet/Chef. Nagios is a management tool ("Server X is getting slashdotted. Go check it") and you can use puppet or chef for system deployment. A working familiarity with those tools would put you in the top 5% of sysadmins and would also be very useful for being the devops guy at a startup.