Anyone use a Linux VPS to host multiple domains?

tonyyeb

tonyyeb

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Hi all

I'm currently looking to move several domains from each of their own individual hosting packages to a single Linux VPS. My main concern isn't the websites being hosted each with their own domain but each domain's email. They need to have separate mailboxes (some multiple) and was wondering how other people do this with a VPS (is it possible?). I'm looking at the Linux VPS solutions offered by 1&1 at the moment as they seem to offer a decent spec for the price.

All help appreciated, cheers :)
 
I use a linux VPS running CentOS as a guest in a XEN environment to administrate multiple domains, 5 domains in total. Each domain has http, https, imap, smtp, mail filtering, etc, pretty standard server, and I host a mumble server and a few other specific items.

Is there anything in particular you need help with, as youll be looking at setting up each service with virtual hosts, virtual domains and/or mailboxes.

I use the following as the main services:

httpd/apache
postfix
dovecot
amavisd
mysqld

There are some other services like clamd, fail2ban, etc running.

If you need any help let me know and ill try to do my best for you. I administrate my server from the backend, but I do work with Linux so do have the knowledge to do this.
 
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Having a quick flick through google, there are some decent guides out there, a lot better than what I could explain here, whats your preferred OS?

There are some CentOS guides:

Mail:

http://ostechnix.wordpress.com/2013...-centosrhelscientific-linux-6-3-step-by-step/

Apache:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-centos-6

But it really does depend on your preferred OS, and the software you install to do the job, theres a lot of choice out there!

If you get stuck though drop the question on here and Ill do my best for you.
 
mynsa said:
I use a linux VPS running CentOS as a guest in a XEN environment to administrate multiple domains, 5 domains in total. Each domain has http, https, imap, smtp, mail filtering, etc, pretty standard server, and I host a mumble server and a few other specific items.

Is there anything in particular you need help with, as youll be looking at setting up each service with virtual hosts, virtual domains and/or mailboxes.

I use the following as the main services:

httpd/apache
postfix
dovecot
amavisd
mysqld

There are some other services like clamd, fail2ban, etc running.

If you need any help let me know and ill try to do my best for you. I administrate my server from the backend, but I do work with Linux so do have the knowledge to do this.
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slightly off topic but have you been on any linux training courses? if so which ones.

ta
 
phill1978 said:
im trying to find the best linux course to go on that's all.
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Sorry I dont have much experience in official training courses with Linux, maybe someone will read this thread who knows about this and can advise, unfortunately Im not in a position to provide advice there.
 
tonyyeb said:
I'm looking at the Linux VPS solutions offered by 1&1 at the moment as they seem to offer a decent spec for the price.
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IIRC, 1&1 VPS packages come with Plesk (certainly one of the options) so administration should be straight forward.

But if you have a blank server then there's plenty of tutorials around for setting up LAMP/LNMP (personally the latter) stacks and mail servers (Postfix/Qmail with Dovecot) on your chosen flavour of Linux and securing/administrating it all.

Worth having a look on LowEndBox and VPSBoard forums (and wiki pages), plenty of info there and useful scripts (eg - TuxMail, which will install a few packages all in one hit).
 
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