Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 9

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

A Simple Mailserver On Arch Linux (Postfix + Dovecot)

This tutorial describes how to install a complete mailserver using Postfix and Dovecot on an Arch Linux machine or VPS. This specific tutorial is based on my 256MB VPS. Basic linux knowledge is required as I'm not describing every step in detail.

How To Create A Cluster Testbed Using CentOS 5 Virtualization And iSCSI

This guide attempts to provide a Xen based test environment where you can practice setting up a two node cluster (cluster setup itself is not discussed here - I'm merely giving you what you need to set it up).

How To Install Django On Debian Etch (Apache2/mod_python)

This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Etch server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.

How To Block WebPages Based On Keywords Or Phrases With SafeSquid Proxy Server

Keyword Filtering allows you to block web pages, depending on the words and phrases found in the page's title, meta tags and body. Keyword filtering in SafeSquid uses a 'weighed keyword scoring' method. It analyzes web pages, and searches for specified, unacceptable words or phrases.

Reduce Apache's Load With Nginx On RHEL 5.2

This how-to describes how to install and configure Nginx to accelerate an Apache server based on RHEL 5.2.

Embedding Python In Apache2 With mod_python (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/CentOS, Mandriva, OpenSUSE)

This tutorial shows how to install and use mod_python on various distributions (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/CentOS, Mandriva, OpenSUSE) with Apache2. mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server. It allows you to write web-based applications in Python that will run many times faster than traditional CGI and will have access to advanced features such as ability to retain database connections and other data between hits and access to Apache internals.

Installing A FreeBSD 7.0 DNS Server With BIND

This tutorial shows how to set up a FreeBSD based server that offers DNS services. This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of FreeBSD, but should apply to the 32-bit version.

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Fedora 9

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Fedora 9 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

Step By Step: Install Wordpress Multiuser (WPMU) On FreeBSD 7

Wordpress is one of my favourite blog engines because it's easy and supports many plugins. Wordpress also available in multi-user mode which means a single Wordpress installation will cover many users with their own subdomain. This howto will show the steps taken to install Wordpress wpmu on a server running FreeBSD 7 stable.