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I'm considering switching to VPS because of problems I've encountered with my current reseller host on a shared server. But -- I am having some cold feet here because I feel a little like a hack when it comes to server administration.
I currently have a reseller account with around 12 sites, with not much traffic. The biggest problems I have are with my host's email servers; the outgoing smtp server was blacklisted for about a week last month (a spambot on one of my server neighbor's sites). That was painful. I'm tired of the shared hosting situation, although the fact that they are fully managed is nice.
My questions are:
1. I know very little about server maintenance or dealing with spambots, etc. -- am I going to be over my head getting a VPS account?
2. DNS has always been just a little confusing to me. I know how it works, but cannot really understand how to switch over to a new nameserver with no down time. Is there an easy way to understand this?
Thanks for any help.
I currently have a reseller account with around 12 sites, with not much traffic. The biggest problems I have are with my host's email servers; the outgoing smtp server was blacklisted for about a week last month (a spambot on one of my server neighbor's sites). That was painful. I'm tired of the shared hosting situation, although the fact that they are fully managed is nice.
My questions are:
1. I know very little about server maintenance or dealing with spambots, etc. -- am I going to be over my head getting a VPS account?
2. DNS has always been just a little confusing to me. I know how it works, but cannot really understand how to switch over to a new nameserver with no down time. Is there an easy way to understand this?
Thanks for any help.