[perry]

its simple to manage your own maintained vps.

just buy a cheap vps at a leb (lowendbox.com) server with 128 - 256 mb ram 1 core.
to learn manage it your self.

start with installing and updating your programs and the linux/windows (try to avoid windows trust me when you know about linux windows is crap)

by centos:

you can install webservers by your self with nginex mysql named (bind9) or apache davecot/postfix.

simply run these commands:

yum install nginex -y
yum install phpmyadmin -y
yum install davecot -y
yum install apache -y

and look on the internet for detailed installation

you can get easystarted with that by installing a panel (such as ispconfig, vestacp, kloxo-mr, centos webpanel and etc)

and update your server for security patches by doing:

yum update (for installed progs security)
or
yum upgrade (for a complete new version with added features or removed due to security)

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ubuntu:

you can install webservers by your self with nginex mysql named (bind9) or apache davecot/postfix.

simply run these commands:

apt-get install nginex -y
apt-get install phpmyadmin -y
apt-get install davecot -y
apt-get install apache -y

and look on the internet for detailed installation

you can get easystarted with that by installing a panel (such as ispconfig, vestacp, and etc)

and to maintain updates upgrade:

apt-get update (simple package updates to maintain security)
apt-get upgrade (just set a completly new version to the pakage)

i hope this wil help you consider your own managed vps
if you need more help sure to keep posting here im always happy to help.

perry

Well, at least give correct commands. You wrote nginex, wheras it should be named nginx. Same for davecot (= dovecot). I recommend you to take a look over at the DigitalOcean community, it holds a lot of tutorials for server management.

It was just an idea i thought it was nginEx (i never heard about it that much) like engine.

Good tuturials are foundable on int