Well it was bound to happen. I'm moving from Fedora to CentOS. As it turns out the Fedora release/update cycle is too fast.

This section covers the setup of advanced linux servers using CentOS. What do I mean by advanced. Well I'm talking about servers setup for virtual hosting with a database backend. I am talking about servers that are scalable.

We will start with the base server install. Once that server is running then we can customize it for its application.

Below is a list of the howtos.

HOWTOs for CentOS 5.x

HOWTO CentOS 5.x Base Server
This Howto covers setting up the base server used in the other howtos. Use this howto when your server is running on the bare metal, Parallels, VirtualBox, or VMware.

HOWTO CentOS 5.x Virtual Web Hosting
This is the virtual web hosting howto. The setup covered here uses name based hosting. Only one IP address for all the websites on the server. I'm running 15 domains using this setup. The main players are Apache, ProFTPD, and Mysql.

HOWTO CentOS 5.x Virtual Mail Hosting
Virtual mail hosting using Postfix, Dovecot and mysql. This is the most advanced howto here. This howto make use of Postfix, MySQL and Dovecot.

HOWTO CentOS 5.x Mail Filtering Server
This howto covers setting up a server that filters incoming mail. Help your main mail server by having all incoming mail get check for spam and viruses by this server.

HOWTO CentOS 5.x Security Camera Server Using Zoneminder
With all these other servers we need to monitor them with security cameras. This howto covers setting up Zoneminder on CentOS 5.x.