who here host web sites on there box ...


please post your goods or bads

I'm running centos 3.4 which is linux enterprise

ive been hosting for 2 companies and serving e-mail for both since about Apr of 04. only issue i have had is with the imapssl not working 100% and had to creat a cron job to basically give it a boot to the head every 2 hours. even with that i still get phone calls and have to manually give it an extra boot to the head.

if i had to guess i just have something configured wrong, or i have some hardware that is not working 100%. im not to stressing over it as it is only for a total of 5 users with both companies combined. very small traffic so i dont care enough to deal with it until ti really breaks.

i can say this, the server is way more powerful and robust then the win2k server i had things running on before. the OS that is. the hardware is accually a rather large step down in both the CPU and the RAM, but the whitebox 3 runs better then my win2k did.

maybe you can give me a hand w/ my box

apache is about as easy as it gets. there are loads of tutorials out there. depending on your distro and how it installs things (yum, yast, apt-get) or sorce you can go from there.

as for the e-mail stuff i had a friend set that up, i still dont understand 100% of how it is configured, thus the main reason i can not fix the little annoyance i am having.

i can tell you this though. when i first started with linux (about 9-12months ago) i came out of the windows world (i know a large amount about windows and networking in the windows AD enviroment) i was able to install RH9 from a book i bought and get apache up and running in no time at all. did not even have troubles getting the permissions set.

if you have any basic computer skills beyound a user level, then following the tutorials for apache is a breeze.

what control panel your using ?

i use directadmin for my clients, and for billing i use clientexec

I have quite a bit and links to other resources on the net on my adsl server which you will probably find useful.