On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently, one of my friend, who is practising GNU/Linux, struggled a lot > to do some activities in only of my production servers. > > Reason: No expereince in production servers. > > Though he is a RHCE guy, he has all the theory knowledge and very less > practical knowledge > on working with email servers, firewall etc.
Although, the "School of Hard Knocks" is the best way to learn practical things, there are ways to train/coach yourself on maintaining servers on the WAN. Before jumping into managing servers on the WAN, it would behoove to study best practices and join a few 'global' mailing lists on the different distros and read the postings therein. I learnt a lot this way w/o any CapEx (even @ $5/month) except for my time :) Secondly, with hardware virtualization a lot can be learnt by creating virtual networks + VMs. With backtrack you can do pen testing. > > I suggested him to buy a VPS and practise all the stuff he has learnt. > > https://www.digitalocean.com gives 5$/month VPS. > It seems so cheap and will give good experience for beginners. I would recommend this as the third stage, when the person is comfortable with rummaging through log files (or reports from tools) i.e. mental preparedness. On the WAN, the types of attacks a system is subjected to, can be overwhelming even to a seasoned admin. -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) I'd rather be called a moron, than walk around with doubts in my mind. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
