I plan on purchasing a dedicated box here shortly, and wanted to get CentOS up to par to run and sell web space/bandwidth on a dedicated box.
I have VMWare server on my machine, and am playing with an install right now, I installed the server version, so a lot of the stuff needed is probably already installed.
out of the box, what do I need to do with my CentOS server install to get it up and running? I looked around CentOS's website with not much directive. Reading a few of there posts, they seem a bit rough with answers people have, so I thought i'd check her first.
I assume I need to set up some sort of FTP, and a Mail server on here as well?
how do I get support for ASP, or AJAX?
I will purchase a license for WHM/cPanel ... will that be able to do EVERYTHING I need to automate this?
I will use WHMCS for my billing software to set it all up, and interface with WHM.
I also need to make this very secure, is there an easy way to do this? It seems like a realm on it's own..each thing has to be secure in itself, liek FTP, Apache, firewall, etc.
This is assuming I get a managed dedicated server, where backups and most networking things will be handled by the company I lease/rent the box from.
Lastly, is the cost of renting a server at , say 100$ a month seem like a good idea, or should I purchase my own hardware and get a collocation at a datacenter here so i can be near it, and worry about it myself? (backups, security, etc)?
<--- pumped to play with nix
I have VMWare server on my machine, and am playing with an install right now, I installed the server version, so a lot of the stuff needed is probably already installed.
out of the box, what do I need to do with my CentOS server install to get it up and running? I looked around CentOS's website with not much directive. Reading a few of there posts, they seem a bit rough with answers people have, so I thought i'd check her first.
I assume I need to set up some sort of FTP, and a Mail server on here as well?
how do I get support for ASP, or AJAX?
I will purchase a license for WHM/cPanel ... will that be able to do EVERYTHING I need to automate this?
I will use WHMCS for my billing software to set it all up, and interface with WHM.
I also need to make this very secure, is there an easy way to do this? It seems like a realm on it's own..each thing has to be secure in itself, liek FTP, Apache, firewall, etc.
This is assuming I get a managed dedicated server, where backups and most networking things will be handled by the company I lease/rent the box from.
Lastly, is the cost of renting a server at , say 100$ a month seem like a good idea, or should I purchase my own hardware and get a collocation at a datacenter here so i can be near it, and worry about it myself? (backups, security, etc)?
<--- pumped to play with nix
