(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Know the difference between managed and unmanged.. Yes support can cost around $20 - $60 be asure to ask before buying your server.. Not all live help techs will help you with installing a control panel.. yes there dicks but granted if you bought unmanged server you should expect that

- How to login to ssh and su
- How to update it with and without the control panel
- Have a wide knowledge of ssh command line.. it's good for when your control panel is offline.. you can bring it back up with just one command line
- Know that a each service is separate Apache, email, ftp, mysql those are all servers there not all one.. so one can go down cause your site to mess up
- Just because your site is offline doesn't mean your whole server is down it could just be apache crashed or your blocked from your firewall
- how to prevent from getting rooted or shelled..