MadPPC

For the love of someone’s god (because he sure as hell isn’t mine), how many times do I have to tell you delinquents to stop using GoDaddy?
Do you know how bad it breaks my heart to see some poor sap who just had his domain jacked by Godaddy, and are holding it for $200 in [...]

8.  Setting up FTP
To start install the FTP Server:

apt-get -y install vsftpd

Now all we have to do is configure it:

nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

We don’t want people logging in anonymously so change “anonymous_enable=YES” to:

anonymous_enable=NO

You also want to uncomment [remove the # in front] these lines:

#local_enable=YES
#write_enable=YES

Ctrl + O, then Enter to save.  Ctrl + X to exit.  Now restart [...]

Based on a request I’m going to take you guys through setting up your own VPS for AM / IM work.  This includes setting up LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).  We are going to be working with Ubuntu Linux 8.10, as it’s a fairly easy, secure setup.
Make sure you select Ubuntu 8.10 Minimal for installation.
In [...]