Don’t like to do sys admin stuff - especially intial host server setup? Well if you’re on Slickhost or some other Ubuntu host, Chris Turner wrote some cool tutorials on using Mike Bailey’s deprec gem (well deprec2) for linux and windows. deprec is a collection of automated recipes for installing, configuring and controlling services on remote servers (built on capistrano). It’s original purpose was to automate the setup of production ready Ruby on Rails servers. This included everything from creating admin accounts, setting up your ssh keys to compiling and installing packages like mogrel/ngix on a freshly installed ubuntu server. Geoffrey Grosenbach has a free mini peepcode deprec screencast [mov] too.