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My CentOS based home server is humming along nicely. I now have a LAMPS server that has been online for about two weeks. My dynamic address has only changed once due to adding a wireless router to the network for my daughter's laptop. The server doesn't currently have a functional purpose other than experimentation. I'm mainly using it to learn how to use different setup schemes and to install different software packages. As time permits, I intend to install various open source control panels and and virtual private server systems.
I have the CentOS firewall and SELinux implementation in use. It seems to be working well. Fortunately, it logs everything that happens within the server environment. In two weeks time, I have already had several thousand attempts to compromise the server. So far, none have been successful. The attempted user name and IP address are listed making blocking or other actions possible.
After everything is stabilized i may offer some free accounts for your own experimentation and edification, if anyone is interested. I have a server marketing concept I hope to implement next summer. I will need some users to work the bugs out of the system.
fos....
AndreL
10-09-2006, 03:11 AM
If you eventually could have the time to make a "How to" of this... it would be quite cool!
Sounds like a good project. I'll get to work on it.
fos....
jpaulb
10-20-2006, 08:35 AM
If you eventually could have the time to make a "How to" of this... it would be quite cool!
I'll second that.
I have 2 website, now that I'm on a 10 meg cable hosting both myself is a viable option.
Any tip would be appreciated.
Paul
I hope to find time to write the "Home Server - Howto" this weekend. I want to reinstall my minimal CentOS system to write out the fine details. So far it has been very reliable. The security included with CentOS has done a splendid job. I am using Zoneedit to redirect the domain name to the dynamic IP address.
My son that is in the Army is home from Iraq and visiting for the week. He has been getting most of our spare time.
fos...
jpaulb
10-20-2006, 10:16 PM
I hope to find time to write the "Home Server - Howto" this weekend. I want to reinstall my minimal CentOS system to write out the fine details. So far it has been very reliable. The security included with CentOS has done a splendid job. I am using Zoneedit to redirect the domain name to the dynamic IP address.
My son that is in the Army is home from Iraq and visiting for the week. He has been getting most of our spare time.
fos...
family is more important that a howto
romac
10-21-2006, 10:12 AM
My son that is in the Army is home from Iraq and visiting for the week. He has been getting most of our spare time.
Fos:
It would be interesting to know what he thinks about people who hate America and Americans, like Dave and Tina and apparently most everyone else on this forum.
Of course we know what they think of him.
Bob
viator
10-21-2006, 03:39 PM
That troll isnt worth responding to folks :)
Thanks Viator,
I don't think anyone should speak for Dava & Tina. I respect their opinions and doubt that they would judge someone they don't know.
That's why I rarely participate in religous and political discussions. It is a good way to lose valuable friends.
No one here can express an opinion of my son as he is unknown to this group. In high school he was an artist and a musician. He is the last one I would have expected to join the Army. FWIW, he joined the Army before this gulf war started and has about the same opinion of it as the rest of us do. He is just doing his job in as honorable a fashion as he can. Just the way he was raised.
fos....
romac
10-22-2006, 11:11 AM
Fos:
My question was serious and you have answered it.
I would have sent it to you as a private message but that does not seem to be possible in this forum.
You do a great job with this forum. As an American, knowing our country and the freedoms we have, I am sure there must be times when you are irritated by some of the comments here by people who have never been here and probably have never met an American, and are unaware even that only half of us are descendants of white Europeans. But you remain serenely calm!
I am sure you are proud of your son, as we all should be. He has been on the front lines for all Americans.
Thanks for the clarification Bob, that make me feel a lot better. You should be able to send private messages. They are enabled. Just click on the individual's screen name and it will bring up messaging options. You can also click on the "Private Messages" below your login in the upper right corner.
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PS. One of the freedoms we enjoy in the US is the ability to express personal opinions without retribution. That is what my son is fighting for, even if this war may not be the best place to do it. Trying to be diplomatic. :)
bluesdog
10-22-2006, 02:54 PM
Just for the record, most of my personal and professional encounters with citizens of the US of A have been pleasant..
Mainly I reserve my rancour for my own misbegotten government/politicians/corporations etc., but Bush's neo-cons scare the crap out of me, and make me wonder just how the good people of the US have allowed this present administration to stomp all over their Bill of Rights.
Sometimes I think the western states and the western provinces should join to form a new, independent country.. :biggrin:
Incidentally, why is this discussion in 'Ubiquitous Server Attacks', instead of 'Too Hot To Handle'?
This thread did wonder off topic.
I have reinstalled CentOS 4.4 on my server box taking notes along the way. In a little over 12 hours, I have already had hundreds of security attacks. With the firewall, SELinux, and SSH setup I have in place, none of them have been successful.
I have written the first third of the HOWTO for the home server. I hope to post it later today.
fos....
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