Hi all,
I am very much a Microsoft person and have very little experience in Linux, however I have recently got a new job and there is a large open source community here (not specific for my role). I feel it will benefit me by learning the technology.
I have always been a person who likes to explore with technology, and I am lucky enough that I work for a data centre who allow their employees rack space for free.
For a learning experience I would like to embark on the setting up and configuring a Linux web server and additionally a mail server too.
I currently use 1&1 to host a few personal websites I have created and email accounts associated with these and would like to migrate them to this web server when it is complete (why not, it’s free ay?
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I plan on purchasing something like a Dell Poweredge 1950 VIII V3 Server 2x Xeon L5420 2.50GHz 8GB Ram 1x 250GB HDD's. I can pick one up for £300.
I would also like my web server to be a VM as I would also like to configure a Microsoft VM later down the line on the same server.
So my initial thoughts are, please bear in mind I am very new to this ...
1) Install ESXi on my server
2) Create 1 VM
3) Install Ubuntu Server (I am expecting people to suggest red hat/ fedora here)
4) .....
And the next steps is where I would like advice/help.
What would be the best way of going about doing this, I have not really thought too much about it, so would love to hear some recommendations.
I know I will need to install Apache2, MYSQL, PHP but my issues are how, what is the best way to configure them etc.
I really would like to be able to host multiple sites and multiple email accounts from this server (not loads, just a few)
Would you recommend installing a 3rd party firewall like Shorewall, or is iptables sufficient?
All ideas are welcome, this will help me learn lots I think.
Thanks in advance, and sorry this is so long
I am very much a Microsoft person and have very little experience in Linux, however I have recently got a new job and there is a large open source community here (not specific for my role). I feel it will benefit me by learning the technology.
I have always been a person who likes to explore with technology, and I am lucky enough that I work for a data centre who allow their employees rack space for free.
For a learning experience I would like to embark on the setting up and configuring a Linux web server and additionally a mail server too.
I currently use 1&1 to host a few personal websites I have created and email accounts associated with these and would like to migrate them to this web server when it is complete (why not, it’s free ay?
)I plan on purchasing something like a Dell Poweredge 1950 VIII V3 Server 2x Xeon L5420 2.50GHz 8GB Ram 1x 250GB HDD's. I can pick one up for £300.
I would also like my web server to be a VM as I would also like to configure a Microsoft VM later down the line on the same server.
So my initial thoughts are, please bear in mind I am very new to this ...
1) Install ESXi on my server
2) Create 1 VM
3) Install Ubuntu Server (I am expecting people to suggest red hat/ fedora here)
4) .....
And the next steps is where I would like advice/help.
What would be the best way of going about doing this, I have not really thought too much about it, so would love to hear some recommendations.
I know I will need to install Apache2, MYSQL, PHP but my issues are how, what is the best way to configure them etc.
I really would like to be able to host multiple sites and multiple email accounts from this server (not loads, just a few)
Would you recommend installing a 3rd party firewall like Shorewall, or is iptables sufficient?
All ideas are welcome, this will help me learn lots I think.
Thanks in advance, and sorry this is so long