This is my first experience with linux command line. I can say that it was frustrating at first without having experience. I was able to understand most of the commands, making it much simpler to work on a linux server. The articles at http://cloudservers.rackspacecloud.com helped me setup this wordpress blog on a 512MB Rackspace Cloud Server running Ubuntu. For those of you who are not the Linux guru, I recommend you check our the articles on the URL mentioned.



I originally provisioned the server through our control panel, which took roughly 20-30 seconds. Once completed, I received an email from the Rackspace Cloud notifying me the server was online, along with the IP, username, and password.


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Using terminal on Mac, I logged into the server and began setting it up. Being a newbie to command line, I was impressed with how easy it was to get files/applications onto the server and installed, even though it was command line interface.