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Why would it be any more difficult as its a VPS? I use a VPS setup was no different.

Because without installing a GUI (Plesk, cPanel, webmin, etc) you need to do everything via SSH. So no spoon-feed-me GUI to set up your crons.

Also, crontab in vi is just slaughter.

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It has a spoon-feed-me community though - should help with crons on their servers

Absolutely, which is great.

DigitalOceans community tutorials are pushed through review though, so it's more professional advice than it is random-joe's giving sh​​itty advice.

Though the set-up is different than to a server with a server management GUI, like cPanel.

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Why would it be any more difficult as its a VPS? I use a VPS setup was no different.

 

Because without installing a GUI (Plesk, cPanel, webmin, etc) you need to do everything via SSH. So no spoon-feed-me GUI to set up your crons.

Also, crontab in vi is just slaughter.

 

Absolutely, which is great.

DigitalOceans community tutorials are pushed through review though, so it's more professional advice than it is random-joe's giving sh​​itty advice.

Though the set-up is different than to a server with a server management GUI, like cPanel.

Precisely what robot said.

DigitalOcean's Droplets don't ship with GUI Server Admin software. So you have to do a lot of things via command line. Crontab can be a nightmare if one you aren't used to command line, two you aren't used to UNIX commands and three because it's just genuinely horrible to try do lol.

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Unless you order a GUI at the time the majority of VPS come without one unless its a German provider! Although there is free easy to install ones out there. Centos web panel is quite a good one, Froxlor or Webmin.

I am more of a nano person as I hate vi. Easier to work with. Lock down that SSH on a different port with key only access and work by console. I work a lot using ssh just find it quicker and easier to implement changes or something new into code live on the server. Especially as on some of my sites I use xml to drop it into the main code so dont actually edit the main code.

Crontab isnt that hard. I find a lot of people shy away from working on servers as they fear they will break it.

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