Comments on: Dedicated Server Setup Checklist

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:51:21 +0000

Im planning on buying a dedicated server, do you happene to know any places which sell them for cheap but are efficient? Thanks

By: Keeton

Keeton — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:07:16 +0000

Hi Dan,

Some good tips here – thank you! Do you recommend a hardware firewall in front of your server, or do you rely on Advanced Policy Firewall exclusively?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:40:12 +0000

Well, I’m not a web host, so I have no need to install things like WHM or cPanel. Control panels can be very expensive, while editing Apache configuration and users yourself is actually pretty simple.

By: Kunal

Kunal — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:50:04 +0000

Great tips. Wonder if you anyone could take this further and show us how to setup WHM, Cpanel and antiviruses, rootkits etc.

By: Secret Owl

Secret Owl — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:03:48 +0000

Oh man – I’m so lost. I knew I shouldn’t have gone with an unmanaged host just because I have putty….

Anyway, thank you! I’m slowly but surely learning how to figure out how to figure out what I’m doing, haha.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:53:50 +0000

Frank, you don’t want to be changing permissions on anything. When you need root access to perform a task like that, while logged in as your normal user, you use “su” to become the super user temporarily. This is only a brief tutorial on basic security tasks, not Linux use itself. Unfortunately, if you don’t know the basics of using the operating system, you shouldn’t be administering an internet-facing server yourself.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:21:26 +0000

I tried what you had written up but when I logged in with the new user I created, I couldn’t exit the sshd_config file. I could with the root access but not with this new user… you may want to clarify as to how to set permissions first because if you don’t and you disable root login you are in trouble

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:31:43 +0000

Dan I like your information but I think I made a mistake the tar did not work for me until I put tar xvzf. Then when I ran it I got a lot of errors
How do you run the pico that did not work. Can you give more detail and can you also comment on cpanel and how to load file through cpanel. Feel free to email me directly with those tips.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:47:10 +0000

john: Somehow I think an IRC channel isn’t the best way to advertise your company. I doubt 90% of people who see a comment like that even know that’s an IRC channel and network, or even what IRC is.

By: john

john — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:29:15 +0000

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