After a basic install of Centos 4.3, the first thing that we do is to configure a firewall (iptables). To do this easily, navigate here and then select the relevant options. The important ones are to open port 80 for HTTP, port 21 for FTP, port 22 for SSH
The server will be running RAID 5 for performance and redundancy. This means that three disks will work together to power the server with the other being a hot drive (back up disk). If one disk should fail, the hot spare will kick in automatically with no
This is a detailed description how to set up a CentOS 4.3 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall,