How steep is the learning curve when moving from shared (cPanel) webhosting to a VPS (e.g. Linode)?

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Published on 2012-10-08T10:04:34Z Indexed on 2012/10/08 15:53 UTC
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In all shared hosting environments, one can be agnostic to the running OS. What happens in the case of Linode?

I know it allows pretty flexible Linux installations, but for starters, besides choosing a distro, does one need to do more Linux sysadmin stuff besides the basic web hosting (DNS management, MySql database creations, users ftp/ssh access/ backups)?

Does Linode have a module that would cover cPanel's basic features?

Does one need to install/start/upgrade each aspect of LAMP (software bundle)?

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