General

• Virtual Private Server (VPS) overview
• Adding a private server (VPS)
• Log into a VPS before pointing DNS to DreamHost
• How do I add a user to my private server?
• Proxy Server
• Mongrel

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Migrating websites

• How do I move users and domains to my private server?
• How do I move a single domain from Shared hosting to a private server?
• How do I manually migrate my domain to a private server?
• Migrating all data between two private servers

Nginx

• Running an Nginx application without Passenger
• Forcing your Nginx site to load securely
• Nginx overview
• Change your web server to Nginx
• Nginx web application configurations
• PHP with Nginx at DreamHost

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Optimization

• VPS optimization overview
• Managing your VPS memory usage
• Web server performance comparison

Troubleshooting

• Editing the apache2.conf file
• Set up a server status script on a VPS or Dedicated server
• Reboot a VPS
• How to check your resource usage on a VPS
• Simulating high traffic
• Recovering from memory saturation