I do a lot of tinkering around with my developemt VPSes and web servers, but I'd like to get better so I can eventually get a legitimate job doing linux server management, specifically web servers.
Currently, I can setup basic LAMP and LNMP (Nginx instead of Apache, in fact I love Nginx), create/modify MySQL databases via ssh, write basic BASH scripts for installing software stacks, etc. I'm familiar with CentOS but lately I seem to have been enjoying Debian for web servers more.
I'm very familar with cPanel/WHM for managing web servers with lots of sites on them. All my personal sites / projects run on LNMP stacks however.
I'd like to become better at what I am doing and learn more about it. I want to be able to set up secure web servers and do this in the future for others and as a job, I'd like to know linux inside and out.
I'm at a point where my learning has come to a halt. I can do what I need to do for myself, which is pretty basic. I need to learn how to do things that I don't specifically need for myself, like setting up email servers and pen testing my own setups and optimizing config files for performance and utilizing home made bash scripts more.
Can you point this dude in the right direction?
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