Friday, February 8, 2013

Any advice on starting a webhosting and computer consulting business?

Q. I have a friend of mine who has offered to set me up with a linux-based VPS, and was thinking of starting a webhosting business with this? In addition I was thinking about doing some consulting like setting up servers for small businesses, setting up home wireless networks, and PC repair? Any advice?

A. I have been self-employed as a systems engineer for over 3 years and the best advice I ever got was don't undervalue your services. It is much easier to give discounts than it will be to raise your rate in the future. Bill for every minute you work and then add lines to your invoice like "New customer discount" or give them a discount if the hit a certain number of hours each month/quarter/year. Be confident in your skills and what they are really worth. Don't give it away. Let them know why you are giving them a discount. The second best advice I got was "A value that is not recognized is no value at all." In other words, if your clients don't know that you are doing something special for them they will come to expect it. List everything you do on your invoice. The final advice is to form a LLC or a business entity that will separate your work from your personal life. If for some reason a client wants to take legal action they will have to take it towards your "company" not you. They cannot go after your personal possessions. Self-employment is awesome! I will never go back to working for the "man". I wish you the best of luck.
I hope this helps.

How to use linux centos terminal basicly?
Q. i have free vps by Host1Free and centos installed. Ok i want to niow how to upload, delete, rename, move, copy, list files using putty when o connect remotelt. To say this simply: i want terminal commands to manage files.

A. Try these links:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/cli.html

http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php

How to have linux VPS keep running java server?
Q. I have the server an all working.
Minecraft server actually.
But I noticed the server will stop when I close my putty the server will server aswell.
How do I get it to constantly run? Even if my computer is off or not

A. one way would be to use nohup. just start your program with something like:
nohup ./yourprogram
that will keep the program alive, even when you log out. but this will not work with programs that take input from the console.
another way is to use a screen session (if screen is installed). with the command "screen" you start a shell session in which you can then start programs. if you press ctrl+a, ctrl+d (in that order), the session gets detached and will continue after you log out. after logging in, you can resume the session with "screen -r sessionname".
for more informations, try "man screen" or "man nohup".



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