[users@httpd] newbie -first steps

[Richard Okeby <ri...@whitecloud.co.nz>]

>Hi

I have bought a whole bunch of celeron 400mhz boxes, with the idea of 
moving my website to my own server. I want to setup a webserver, 
mailserver, primary dns, and a secondary dns with four of the boxes, maybe 
using the rest for a firewall, fileserver and some backup webservers. I 
have a friend whos already done this so I can get some help, but dont want 
to waste to much time with him doing the grunt work... at this stage im 
installing freeBSD on the boxes, and I have apache ready to go, but I would 
like to have an overview of what steps im going to take next. Can someone 
recommend a tutorial or site that will help me with this project?

thanks for the help,

richard



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Re: [users@httpd] newbie -first steps

[Tim Burden <ti...@burden.ca>]

I think that unless your website is very, very busy, you'll have more fun in
life by just putting it all on one box. That's three less boxes to worry
about.

Also, for a single website, I'd recommend getting the free, single-domain
version of Plesk for your OS, which will come with mail, apache, DNS, PHP,
FTP, mod_perl, MySQL etc. all ready to go and set up in a very secure way.
Then you can administer your domain just by clicking stuff. It will all run
perfectly well on a single 400MHz Celeron. I know this because I ran about
30 (relatively quiet) websites on a 333 and 384K RAM for a couple of years
with absolutely no problems.

Then you can think of other things to do with your boxes and your time. Not
that I'm trying to dissuade you, but unless you want to spend your life
adminning boxes that's what I'd do.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Okeby" <ri...@whitecloud.co.nz>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 2:38 AM
Subject: [users@httpd] newbie -first steps


>
> >Hi
>
> I have bought a whole bunch of celeron 400mhz boxes, with the idea of
> moving my website to my own server. I want to setup a webserver,
> mailserver, primary dns, and a secondary dns with four of the boxes, maybe
> using the rest for a firewall, fileserver and some backup webservers. I
> have a friend whos already done this so I can get some help, but dont want
> to waste to much time with him doing the grunt work... at this stage im
> installing freeBSD on the boxes, and I have apache ready to go, but I
would
> like to have an overview of what steps im going to take next. Can someone
> recommend a tutorial or site that will help me with this project?
>
> thanks for the help,
>
> richard
>
>
>
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