Setting up my VPS

[Cheetah Designs]

I got my VPS around a month a go and haven't had time to set it up yet. I do have a managed service, but would prefer to do things myself.

I have a 600MB OpenVz server which has CentOS 5 installed.

Are there any guides for the initial setup/securing/optimizing of the setup which actually explains what I am doing as I go along?

Thanks for any input.

 

[Cheetah Designs]

http://www.rayheffer.com/36/building-a-secure-web-server-with-centos-5-part-1/

This was the first result in Google for secure centos webserver.

Thanks - but this seems more geared towards setting up a server from scratch for the purpose of hosting many sites. Whilst I will be hosting a couple of sites,

I already have an install of Cent OS 5 which is the default from my service provider. Was more looking for a guide for securing/optimizing that, because obviously I have given them passwords for the root access (which is bad practice right?) etc....and their install will be a one-size-fits-all.

Thanks.