It sounds like you're going in the right direction except for one thing. You should try to install cvs yourself. It's how you learn and although you may get stuck and have to ask for help later you're unlikely to really mess things up. Besides, unless they've already quoted $40 to set up cvs for you I doubt that's what it will cost. Most hosts charge over $100/hr to perform unsupported tasks.

I can't comment on your choice of hosts as I have never worked with them, but you should take a look at lunarpages: http://www.lunarpages.com/virtual-private-server/ I've been hosting with them for about a year and the support is excellent and the uptime as well. It's a little cheaper ($60/yr) and otherwise pretty similar offering.

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Shai Gluskin wrote:

Gang,

I'm about to go from shared hosting to a VPS setup (most probably with modvps.com http://modvps.com after some research). They use CentOS version of Linux and it doesn't come with CVS pre-installed (like Debian does).

In the last month I've significantly upped my (previously non-existent) command line skills, opening up the OS X's Terminal Ap a few times a week and accessing my web host via SSH or fussing around on the Mac. Mostly what I'm doing is using tar for backup and extraction.

Given my lack of experience, my plan is to pay modvps.com http://modvps.com $40/hr to install CVS, given that it would probably take me hours to figure it out and the last thing I want to do is mess up a pristine VPS installation. I figure it shouldn't take them more than hours, yes?

[The part in Pro Drupal Development about using CVS for your Drupal installation is totally awesome, I'm so excited about doing that.]

Convince me otherwise or confirm that I'm on the right track.

Thanks much,

Shai