so i'm getting to the point where i'm going to need dedicated hosting and eventually my own server(s).
i use

apache

  in a local/developemnt enviroment, but as far as hosting my own domains and all that im not comepletly sure where i need to start.
i know relatively little about local

net

 works, dns, security etc. these are all fairly big topics on their own and im looking for something that kind of brings them all together.
if anyone could recomend a good book, websites, or just some kind of trail to follow it would help alot.

thanks 

Yikes... a good book alone is probably not going to do it, but perhaps a

Learn

 

Linux

  in 24 hours will do the trick. Probably the most cost effective way to get started is by renting a VPS instance of

Linux

  so that you can do whatever you want to it and then throw it away when you are done without committing to a complete box.

Personally, I do not host DNS or Mail any longer - I let my hosts do that - I focus solely on LAMP style boxes that are all behind a firewall. I VPN into them so that I can talk FTP, SSH etc to them, but only port 80 and 443 are allowed through the firewall into the boxes. Having gotten hacked nasty several years ago, I find that this sort of arrangement offers me the best sleep

Post here with your qqs as you go forward... I was a

Mac

  and Windows guy with zero *nix experience about 6 years ago so I understand the conversion headaches.

/p

yeah i figured 1 book wouldn't cover it.
im comfortable with

linux

  now, i just know almost nothing about

linux

  +

net

 working.
i found this

ubuntu

  server guide http://doc.

ubuntu

 .com/

ubuntu

 /serverguide/C/index.html which, even if it's mostly an install guide it gives me a basic a road map of what i need to cover.
thanks for the reply.
this forum is probably a better place to post

linux

  questions than any

linux

  forum where you just get flamed if you don't know everything and all threads become flame wars.

well you KNOW that there'll be some good natured flamage here as well.. but it's pretty much in fun.

Post away - there's lots of really smart lurkers here as well as the regulars and everyone's pretty much willing to help.

good luck!
/p

It's pretty easy when you get into it, but it does take time messing around with your server that you could be spending making money.

Apache

 , sendmail, mysql

php

  are all pretty basic to install and setup. What caught me for ages was the DNS, couldn't get it working until i discovered tinydns which is idiotproof. I say forget about a book, just jump in and wing it :-) I'd guess that a lot of us here run our own

linux

  servers so there should be always someone to help ya out.

there are only a few words & commands you need to know to run a succesful

Linux

  web box.



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