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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:19:09 -0500
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

Thanks for all of the great advise.

I have a fair amount of linux experience but am not an expert. A lot of
my skills have been on the software development side and some network
administrations as well. Time to expand the skill base I think.

Thanks again and have a good weekend,
Lonnie

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Fr, den 08.10.2004 schrieb Lonnie Cumberland um 20:03:
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>>I am wanting to learn how to set up am run a linux web hosting service
>>as an opensource learning project to select some of the best
>>applications to be included from around the web and using Fedora 2 as
>>the platform. As I am new to this hosting I am sure not to use the
>>correct terminology.
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>A serious warning: start hosting for customers only if you have much
>experience with all the involved services. And much means for over
>years. Web hosting is no trivial job.
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>>Could anyone please point me in the write direction to possibly locate
>>some information on things like:
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>>1. "web based control panels" that maybe similar to Plesk but
>>opensource so users can control they hosting accounts.
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>- http://www.web-cp.net/
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>http://www.molesoftware.com/www/index.php?i18n=de&pid=1&title=Produkte&sub=4
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>>2. Maybe a user registration/admin PHP script or so that they can set
>>up a basic account on a server
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>See above.
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>>3. Not sure how the domain registration works but I want to learn about
>>that too.
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>Then you should contact a registration company and ask for there
>conditions and how they work. First you will have to learn
>administrating DNS from scratch. www.tldp.org has a DNS (bind) howto.
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>>4. I would like to also implement a Dynamic DNS for users with dialup
>>accounts as well.
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>http://dag.wieers.com/howto/bits/bind-ddns.php
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>>5. Will implement things like SAMBA to the users accounts as well as
>>offering them web, mail, and ftp services
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>Samba for what? Samba has nothing to search in the field of webhosting.
>Get familiar with secure services like IMAPs/POP3s, HTTPS and FTPS or
>FTP/TLS.
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>>By the way, all of this is to be opensource and free
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>>Anyway, this should be some good learning on how to be a linux hosting
>>service provider and I hope to get some good guidance from the forum.
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>Don't expect you can get trained to be a Linux hosting service provider
>from asking a bit and reading a few papers. I told you initially. It
>needs a lot and long experience.
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>>Lonnie
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>Alexander
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