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Thanks for this good articles. They make it easy to use slicehost!

An article about setting up "Subversion and Apache" would be nice.

Thanks,

Udo

I really like the nginx setup from the articles but when you install passenger for nginx is downloads and compiles from source throwing on off the location and configuration from the rest of the articles. I would love to see your take on how to best run the passenger/nginx setup.

Cheers, Mike D.

I have followed many of your articles and they are very precise and brief.

I have setup most of my slice using your inputs and they have all worked fine with optimum expectation. Thanks a bunch for that.

Although, your email setup on Slice covers almost everything that needs to be installed and configured, the one article that I think might be very helpful would be to include Squirrelmail.

That would provide the user to have a webbased email terminal, instead of using the Mail application from the shell prompt.

Just a suggestion.

Thanks for everything so far - macmoby

There don't seem to be any articles on how to setup an FTP server on the slice. Would be handy as I'm sure most people don't want to scp everything up from their desktop.

Hi, great set of tutorials, really makes getting going with Slicehost fun. I was wondering if there are plans to complete the email server series. Currently the latest article is: Mail Server - Adding domains and users to MySQL.

Thank you, John

Great tutorials! But when can we expect this continuation (PostgreSQL for Hardy Heron):

"In the next article, we'll configure our postgres server to allow less restricted local and remote connections."

???

Great tutorials!Could you help me with some tutorial about installing and configuring my postfix email server on debian lenny with LDAP. tHANK YOU

I would love to see an article on really simple user management & permissions.

For example:

• Giving a user access to their home directory only via SFTP
• Allowing users to read/write ~/public and read-only ~/private

I have a few clients on the same server who would each like SFTP to their web folder, so an article like this would be really helpful.

I realize there are already general articles out there about chown/chmod, but it would be helpful to have them here (and assume the slice has been setup according to the other slicehost articles).

It would be great to have an article that walks through using a SSL client certificate for securing admin areas of a rails/passenger app.

I've been scouring the net for decent articles on implementing DKIM-filter, and haven't really come up with any. You could make it so much clearer, and really it's important to making sure mail gets to yahoo...

Wish to see Apache2 + Tomcat integration tutorial.

Also, setting up a CI server like Hudson configured with the above.

I am almost thru with setting up my own email server except that spam filter and antivirus are not set up... Will be great to have articles to do that... I will make the email server setup articles complete.

I'd like to see a MySQL performance tuning article, there are some out on the internet but I think having one in the articles section could help.

a short brief on how to utilize SPF with slicehost's name servers?

perhaps a DKIM extension to article as well to complements slicehost's contribution to limiting spam !?

:) thanks.

Hello,

I'm wondering if you could make an article on SFTP and/or FTP and limiting a user to a certain directory.. something like cpanel does. I'm having a problem with this, and it would be greatly appreciated!

thanks, Nate

Hello,

First off, jet me thank you on the excellent article on installing Apache, it was really helpful. It would be most useful if you could do an article on installing OpenCA on CentOS (or whatever you feel is best), as this setup is a bit complicated and I can't seem to find a good guide anywhere.

Cheers, Dusan.

any chance for tcpwrapper aware ssh how to so to be able to use tools to automatically add lines to hosts.deny ?

Hello, great articles! These are very helpful. I currently have a mail setup, but it's not mysql based. Is it possible to have an article on piping mail to scripts, like shell/perl/php?

Thanks, Andy

I'd love to see an example of configuring MySQL on one slice and having secure access across the backplane to a set of cloned Apache websever slices.

Not the whole setup necessarily but the single instance MySQL and the settings on that server and the webserver nodes to access it.

It'd sell some more slices too ;)

I have setup our slice using all the above documents but i need a clearly explained openssl certificate authority using ubuntu hardy article for making a clear setup of openssl certificate.

Thanks

Hi,

I have to create a subdomain in Linux hardy, but I didn't find any articles about this? Do you have these articles?

Christophe

Wish to see Apache2 + Tomcat6 + Postgres8 integration tutorial.

I'd like to see an article about installing Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger on a slice, with either Apache or Nginx.

I would like to see an article on setting up sendmail/dovecot for use with imap systems under Fedora 11

I would like it if you went into more detail about upgrading the server down the line when there is an assortment of software installed on the slice. For sake of argument, there is nginx installed with django an email server and mysql.

When is it appropriate to use aptitude upgrade and when is it going to bring your system down to it's knees.

I am thinking of a more advanced best practices approach to keeping the software up to date.

Cheers,

Patrick.

It would be great to see an article about setting up webmin (or an article about why it may not be recommended)

Can you create an article about setting the timezone on a server? I'm using Ubuntu Hardy.

Thanks for all the great setup tutorials. I could not have done it without them.

I would love to see an article on how to compile PHP5 (from the source) for nginx.

I would like to see Symfony+Doctrine added to the Frameworks tutorials.

We want an article how to install Nginx, with PHP5 and MySQL support, thanks.

I'd like to see an article on how to setup page caching with nginx using the default Ubuntu layout. It would be even nicer to describe how to set it up with django and serving both dynamic and static (cached data)

Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope updates.

Also, It's not your job to hand hold newbies, but it would be nice to have a step by step "best practices" guide for setting up a full fledged LAMP stack, email, firewall, etc. from scratch to get a basic, community, or media website up and running.

In other words the settings and procedures are already chosen and simply described step by step to the reader with explanations of other options if necessary.

I'd like to see an article on ISPConfig. The ISPConfig "perfect server" are pretty good, but SliceHost-specific instructions would be nice. There could be one tree for people who want to follow your instructions to setup the server (very helpful, btw) using config files. However, the ISP Config tool is very robust.

Thanks!

I am looking for a guided tutorial on how to configure mysql to allow a remote host connection. I would like to administer my database with the tools I have on my local machine.

Thanks

A vsftp setup and configuration article would be nice.

Thanks!

I'd like to see an article how to setup Monit to monitor nginx and thin

It would be great to have something on vsftpd setup for hardy.

This is a good article on Xen. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8540

Please have a look.

Nginx + fastcgi + php would be a great tutorial with init.d scripts for fastcgi.

Lots of great articles here, but mostly about installations. Would love to see some articles about upgrading packages, particularly upgrading from MySQL 5.1 to 6.0 for example (which isn't available in universes for apt-get etc).

Can Somebody, help me.. My ques.:how to serve multilple repositories with one svnserve deamon running on port 3690. I want to access two repositories using "svn://<ip>:port" and my system has only two repositories but only one svnserve deamon is runnig on 3690.How can I access both the repositories. Is this is feasible?

It would be great to have a guide on how to implement a DKIM-filter.

Thanks for your articles! Tom

How about File Integrity Checkers on a slice host box?

I'd like to request an article on "chroot", particularly in regards to Apache.

Thanks

It would be great to see an article on upgrading your slice from one debian release to another - for example going from etch to lenny

A nice rundown of apache WebDAV setup and basic authentication would be good. Maybe even touch on some security issues related to it.

PHPmyadmin installation article would be lovely!

I would like to see the article for how to set the Website Redirection in Ubuntu Server...

I would like to see a Gentoo Security setup tutorial that covers some of the recommended security measures, hardening firewall, kernel, filesystems, encryption etc.

I would like to monitor the network bandwidth and diskspace I am using, so I can plan ahead on when to upgrade slices, etc. An article on related software and how to download, install and use it will be helpful. Thank you.

I'd love to see the sftp chroot article put back up.

I thought an article on how to setup a Hardy Heron cluster with a dedicated PerlBal install as a loadbalancer might be good reading.

A new set of Ubuntu Jaunty articles would be nice, even if the only thing updated is the name!

Thanks for the awesome tutorial thus far, could you cover php-fpm installation for LEMP setups? Thanks!

Great Guide, but some maybe a bit different... I am trying to figure out more on the Virtualhost thing, but what I really would like to see is a guid for MySQL with Django / Python.. is there any?

I could really use a tutorial on setting up nginx with ssl as a proxy to apache/wsgi, I've been screwing around with this for 3 days.

An article about setting up "SSL and Nginx" would be nice. Thanks a lot for the good articels

I would be very grateful if you guys could make a tutorial on how to setup a simple mail server for RHEL. Of course I mean setting up POP3 and SMTP also.

Spam Assassin and Awstats Installs

this article http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/10/28/ip-failover-slice-setup-and-installing-heartbeat with ldirectord

Thanks

Your tutorials are wonderful! The two things that I need most on my Slice are Awstats and SpamAssassin. Since I am newbie, I have had no success installing and configuring. It would be great if you wrote an article covering at least one of these.

Fantastic articles. Articles on PhpMyAdmin would be very much appreciated. Especially around the config.inc.php file and security options.

Thanks/

An install and how to configure hiawatha-webserver would be nice.

continue this article and their series of articles http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/9/2/mail-server-adding-domains-and-users-to-mysql

Would be great to have an article on the best approach to use PHP with Apache 2.2 - whether prefork, worker mpm or fastcgi

Would love to have an article on how to use iptables on ubuntu.

It'd be very helpful to have an article on installing Ruby 1.9.1 for Ubuntu 9.10, where it is included in the aptitude sources. I tried this on my own but had lots of problems with load paths, especially in regards to RubyGems (which is included in 1.9.1).

Managing security updates

I'd like to add to the list of requests for the continuation of the email server tutorials.

Thanks for the great articles and tutorials; they were very helpful in enabling me to setup Atlassisan's JIRA on a 512MB VSP slice.

As others are running Atlassian's JIRA issue management software on a slice, and more are sure to follow, I would like to see an artical/tutorial on tuning JIRA's performance, once it is installed on a slice.

Since JIRA is used most often by developers to track software defects and feature requests, I believe this kind of an article would be a welcome addition by the developer community.

I've created a reference guide to help developers install JIRA on a Slicehost slice:

http://jimintrigliaconsulting.wordpress.com/

It would be great if you could follow this up with a JIRA performance tuning tutorial, especially in the area of Tomcat and Java JVM tuning.

More info on Atlassian JIRA here:

http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/

Many thanks.

I think it would be extremely valuable for everyone if you had a tutorial on alert monitoring / resource tracking.

Since Slicehost basically makes server admins out of all of us some tools to proactively let us know if something isn't working properly, a site has gone done, or we might need to upgrade our slice capacity.

I'd love a tutorial on using s3 or rackspace cloudfiles with a slice.

In an ideal world, it would just be mounted like any other storage device.

Would like to see a quick walk-through of best server setup for Drupal, including OS, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.

A vsftpd article would be pleasant.

cron jobs

How about an article on how to set up a VPN?

Seconding Peter Westwood's post - I'd like to see a guide on upgrading from etch to lenny.

Thanks for all the great articles. Here's my request list.

A load balancing with multiple slices series for nginx/passenger and/or apache/passenger and mysql (master/slave) article would be great :-)

luc

PickledOnion, I would love to see you do an article on setting up asterisk 1.4 with freepbx on ubnutu. there are a lot of things like trixbox and pbx in a flash that are meant to "just install an ISO and you're done" (and they are all for CentOS) but I would love to put it on a slice with ubuntu so I can hack around with it.

thanks, Ryan

Thanks for the great support articles. I would love to see something on setting up user authentication in Apache server configuration files. For example, how to require password access to the entire domain, how to exclude certain directories, etc.

could you please update the PHP install/config for configuring fastCGI

Hi,

An article on live video streaming would be great. So far I see that adobe software does this type of thing I was hoping that the is something for Linux thats free.

Thanks for your time. The articles are great.

Cameron

Great Articles. It would be nice to see something on one of the monitoring tools like munin or cacti.

After dealing with a minor attack today that was hitting a bunch of random, not-present addresses on one of my sites from a pair of IP addresses...an article on configuring fail2ban to handle something like that would be really helpful.

Well. Need one article on how to make SVN repository as project's or domain's root folder.

I'd be interested in learning about rolling logs (I believe Ubuntu does this already?), archiving logs, and installation and usage of 1 or more log parsing software packages. Thank you in advance.

I'd be interesting in seeing a checklist for preparing a slice for production use.

• Securing the server (which some of your articles already cover)
• Securing apache, php, mysql, mail, other popular services
• Securing file permissions and users

Integration of Lighttpd and Tomcat.

Would like to use Lighttpd as a proxy to Tomcat.

Don't want to expose Tomcat at 8080.