Thank you for your help. Since my last post, I've setup my first VPS, edited IP tables and setup SSH certs. I screwed up some things, fixed them, migrated the fixed VPS to a new location, then broke some new things (still broken). Half the time I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm starting to remember terminal commands. (Although, I keep wandering off the 'path' somehow, and would love to understand how to keep things on path.)
After un-breaking some things, my next project will be to setup an Ubuntu carddav caldav server. There must be something inside the Ubuntu 13.10 stack, but I'm unable to find a tutorial in Linode's library.
Baïkal and Apple are the two that pop up the most frequently. Do you have suggestions?
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