Grokking Server Administration For Green Gurus Pilot Solar Server
April 2nd, 2008It’s been a busy past few weeks as I had my pilot solar powered web server configured.
It’s been a wee bit of an undertaking since quite candidly, I’d never really bothered to learn Unix and its use through the command line shell. So I’ve been scouring through several books, forums and picking several friend’s brains to get past this learning curve.
After an initial failed attempt to get Plesk installed on Debian, I switched to CentOS and then branched off into researching DNS configurations, settings, etc.
Simultaneously, I started a web hosting plan comparison (while waiting for my unlimited domain Plesk license to arrive) to start zeroing in on the services and pricing that Green Gurus would be offering.
I didn’t find many clear tutorials online or in my books (everyone always assumes you already have some foundation that I apparently still don’t :), so I called upon another one of those friends/contacts, this time Zak Brown (an Orangekid contact) and sat down with him for two hours downtown at my shared warehouse (with The Do LaB).
Thankfully, he gave me a pretty detailed overview of DNS configurations and then some help buttoning up the solar server.
Now I’m noodling around with some test domains, trying to solidify the tutorial…unfortunately it takes awhile for most things to sink into my dense, Capricorn head. 
Thankfully, I’m diving back in manana with another, long-time OK friend…Steven Dalton, so it should all finally start sticking. 