[Tfug] Software packages for new web server

[Jeffry Johnston]

Just curious.. why two SQL's?

On my box, I put together some cron jobs to automatically apt-get
update and install security updates.  I also have outgoing e-mail
only, can't remember the name of the program right now... configured
it to use G-mail SMTP.

For ssh, I made a dummy account, then from there I su to an account
with sudo access.  Root doesn't have a password (what I mean is no
password will work to su root).  I also went through and removed all
the packages I didn't need.

Don't forget a UPS..

Jeff

On Feb 10, 2008 8:21 PM, Matt Jacob <matt.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'll be getting my own web server soon, and this will be the first time
> I've administered a publicly-accessible box on my own. (What I do at
> work only half counts, because we already have procedures and standards
> in place to keep me from having to make too many decisions on my own.)
> I've got a general idea of the software packages I want to install, but
> I'd also like some insight from you guys (obviously, or else I wouldn't
> be posting this message).
>
> The box is basically going to host a couple of my own sites and a few
> sites for friends, organizations, etc. (I'm planning on using scponly to
> give them jailed SSH/SCP access to their web directories). There's also
> going to be some mail serving, but it'll be restricted to just a few
> actual accounts and a bunch of forwarders.
>
> With that in mind, here's what I'm thinking of:
>
> Debian Etch
> Apache
> MySQL
> PostgreSQL
> PHP/Python/Perl, etc.
> Postfix
> Dovecot
> vsftpd
> scponly
>
> Have I forgotten anything? Is there a better choice I should be using
> instead of what's listed above?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt
>
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