On 14/06/2021 11:47, R D S wrote:

I pay £35 quid per month for web hosting (it's a long story) it's a
reseller package so I can have as many domains as i like but there are
resource limits (I know!! At that price!)

Plus there are security features (which I understand the need for), eg.
I fire up an old computer and there's an email account with an old,
incorrect password, if it retries numerous times our IP ends up locked
off the server. Or if you are setting up an FTP client and try a few
times with a wrong setting. I end up having to call in to get access
restored.

So i'm looking into a VPS.
I'd be paying less and have more resources and control.

Its handy to use a company that can provide a decent level of support as
well, for times when you do need help.

Is a VPS within the scope of someone who knows a little or might I find
myself out of my depth.

Much depends on how it has been setup. Chances are that the provider
will have made it relatively straight forward with cPanel/webmin or
something similar pre-loaded. (or if you are brave SSH so you can
command line into a shell :-)

Do you just stick cpanel on it and as such i'd be pretty much where I am
now, or is there all sorts of background tinkering that i'm unaware of?

That will depend on what you want to do with it - what things you need
to run on the site etc. Usually the basics (web server, MySql/Maria, PHP
etc) will likely work out of the box.

(not a terribly helpful answer I realise!)

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Cheers,

John.

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