Core Recipes

Recipes > Core Recipes

Below is a list of the core recipes for assembling the good ingredients into a tast server infrastructure. To make the most of the recipes you need to plan carefully which recepies you need. When installing Debian you'll need to decide whether you want a complex partitioning scheme involving LVM, RAID and encryption or a simple partitioning scheme and follow the appropriate recipe accordingly. You'll also need to decided which virtualisation architecture to use.

• Architecture
• Why Debian?
• Installation
  • Install Debian Lenny on a Production Server
  • KVM Virtual Install of a Debian Lenny Production Setup
  • Quick Installation
• Configuration
  • Update and Upgrade
  • Add a User and Configure sudo
  • Basic SSH Security
  • Locales
  • Times and Dates
  • Firewall
• KVM vs OpenVZ
• Set up OpenVZ
• Setting up the Protocol-Level Proxies
  • Websites
    • Adding new websites
    • Setting up Mercurial
    • Contact Form
  • Email
    • SMTP Relay with PostgreSQL and Postfix
    • SMTP Testing
    • POP3 and IMAP with Dovecot
    • Spam and Virus Protection
  • Nameservers
    • Bind Primary Nameserver
    • Bind Secondary Nameserver