RapidVPS For System Administrators

Sysadmins fall into two categories, although one person is usually both!- Hobbyist and Professional (you get paid). The real geeks are both of course, and this is our most common and successful client type. You require root access and value uptime, performance, and stability. You do not want to play by some other admins rules, because you know everything! You want to try out bleeding-edge software, check compatability between oddball applications with custom configurations, hack source code, benchmark software, and compile compile compile.

Interesting and Useful Scenarios for your VPS

• Host secondary DNS for your company
• Configure a failover MTA to catch your company's email in case of primary MX downtime
• rsync backup files from your company's datacenter for redundancy and risk mitigation
• Gain experience in custom deployments of open source software, such as mysql replication vs mysql cluster, apache mod_proxy
• Check compatability with your company's mega important web based application and the new version of PHP which you want to upgrade to
• Benchmark maildir vs. mbox performance over a courier imap stunnel ssl encrpyted tcp connection to an offsite python based webmail script
• Test our and gain experience with various package managers (apt, yum, emerge, etc)

The possibilities are endless. Anytime you have needed a spare box to test something out on, or deploy software which may very well crash or render the server useless, VPS is the ticket. With RapidVPS, you can nuke your distribution (rm -rf /lib, oops!), and reinstall in a matter of minutes.

Recommended Service Configuration

• Rapid.one or Rapid.two :: Adequate disk space and resource commit for your application load
• NO Control Panel :: play by cpanel.net's rules? No thanks!
• Gentoo, Debian, CentOS based distro :: Depending on what type of software you wish to deploy or which package manager you prefer