Having banned Windows XP from my computer and replaced it with Ubuntu 8.10, I discovered many features that are very useful for a web designer. One of these is the offical text editor of GNOME desktop environments: gedit.
To set up PHP and MySQL on your server, you have to add several packages. My server runs with Ubuntu, so I just installed the necessary software via SSH. All of these packages reside in the Ubuntu resources, so you dont’t even have to download them.
When organizing a VServer without Plesk – which is really helpful to understand its architecture and functions – you should apply several security steps on your own. Here’s what I did for mine since I have removed Plesk about a month ago.
