Re: Putting together a econimic server
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texte = Donovan Brooke wrote: > First, where can I get a cheap but pertinent (economic) computer to > run linux?? (preferably a rackmount)? eBay is a good place to find deals, but you have to know what you are looking for. You don't need to start out with a quad Xeon (unless your idea of economic is different from mine), but you want something at least 1GHz and 512MB RAM (most rackmount motherboards have very few memory slots). Obviously, Compaq/HP servers are likely to be better quality than some whitebox, but there are some other nice servers out there to be had. > > Second, Do you all have good resources (links/books) that walks a > person through setting up a good secure linux/apache server?? If so > I'd really appreciate your input. Security is not something to take lightly (i.e. shouldn't be done by amateurs, sorry). O'Reilly books are almost always among the best available: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bssrvrlnx/ If you are intent on doing this by yourself, either get a good hardware firewall (Watchguard SOHO 6 is both powerful and cheap), or choose a Linux distro which is intended to be used on servers and comes with firewall software (Mandrake or SuSE are nice and I believe both ship with Shorewall these days). HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Donovan Brooke wrote: > First, where can I get a cheap but pertinent (economic) computer to > run linux?? (preferably a rackmount)? eBay is a good place to find deals, but you have to know what you are looking for. You don't need to start out with a quad Xeon (unless your idea of economic is different from mine), but you want something at least 1GHz and 512MB RAM (most rackmount motherboards have very few memory slots). Obviously, Compaq/HP servers are likely to be better quality than some whitebox, but there are some other nice servers out there to be had. > > Second, Do you all have good resources (links/books) that walks a > person through setting up a good secure linux/apache server?? If so > I'd really appreciate your input. Security is not something to take lightly (i.e. shouldn't be done by amateurs, sorry). O'Reilly books are almost always among the best available: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bssrvrlnx/ If you are intent on doing this by yourself, either get a good hardware firewall (Watchguard SOHO 6 is both powerful and cheap), or choose a Linux distro which is intended to be used on servers and comes with firewall software (Mandrake or SuSE are nice and I believe both ship with Shorewall these days). HTH John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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