living in a datacenter

[Vegan]

I created a VM for my web appliance on Azure, its a single core with 1.75 GB of RAM, hosted by Hyper-V. Best they got is 8 cores and 56 GB RAM so I think I will have some elbow room.

So I was thinking SAMBA the old way is not going to work, so I need to figure out how to live in the cloud now

also a I was using vsftpd but I am not sure what is the option today?

when I installed LAMP it was so fast, they must have a super fast server that blows away my old box, took under 5 seconds to install it

[CharlesA]

What is the purpose of this machine?

[Vegan]

web hosting mostly

[CharlesA]

sftp/scp/rsync via ssh beats the crap out of samba or ftp imo. Easier to deal with and more secure too.

You should be fine with just running a LAMP stack and using sftp or rsync to transfer files to and from the server.

[SeijiSensei]

As a Kubuntu user, I take advantage of Dolphin's support for the "fish" protocol. If I enter a URL into dolphin like fish://user@hostname/directory, it creates an sftp connection to the remote's filesystem and gives me all the rights associated with "user". It makes moving files between a local machine and the remote server really simple.

I also suggest considering an OpenVPN static tunnel to the remote.

[nerdtron]

SFTP, FISH etc. You can also use FileZilla or just the default browser in Ubuntu to connect to your server and transfer files with a nice GUI.

[nerdtron]

SFTP, FISH etc. You can also use FileZilla or just the default browser in Ubuntu to connect to your server and transfer files with a nice GUI.

[Vegan]

I use Filezilla now and have some familiarity using it with Azure web sites already.

What should I do with these held back updates?

azureuser@LAMP:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
linux-cloud-tools-virtual linux-headers-generic linux-headers-virtual
linux-image-extra-virtual linux-image-generic linux-image-virtual
linux-virtual
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
azureuser@LAMP:~$

[SeijiSensei]

If you use "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" those packages will be installed.