estesflyer
Programmer
Ok, me and a few friends are grouping together after deciding that our small services/bits-o-knowledge aren't much use by themselves. My friend number 1, is a graphic/site designer, and works very well with marketing and gathering clients. Friend number 2 has a very extensive vocabulary and between the lot of us, we are able to come up with very inticing catches and phrases, as well as write the content for client's sites as well as our own. Friend number 3 will help out with graphic design as well learn bits of coding here and there. Now, we come to the best of them all! Me! (Just joking, of course...)
Now my job is to administer the linux web/mail/ftp/quakeTF server, as well as do bits of php/html. Now, My first question, is where do i start? =)
I have used linux before, and am very comfortable in it's environment, so I am not scared to get into the nitty gritty. So far, I've assembled a pc, consisting of the following hardware components:
amd athlon t-bird 1ghz
512 megs pc133 ram
k7vza revision 3
40 gig ibm deskstar 7200 rpm 8.5ns (were going to buy two scsi drives and connect them using raid)
oh yeh:
floppy =P
Now, we are installing mandrake 8.0 since I have two full loaded reference manuels, as well as a very wide online user group.
First things first, Whenever I administer the server (multiple t-1 connections) I will be remotely administering it about 20-30 minutes away on a dsl connection, as my home 56k connection is, well, next to worthless.
I suppose I will be setting up linux and getting the ftp server/apache/q-mail/quakeTF server setup before we send it down to the server room.
Now, when connecting, would it be wise to telnet into the machine? What other ways of connecting are useful?
when im connected, what exactly do I do then? I will be reading up in the very near future about telnet, and how it works, but in the mean time, could someone please tell me a little something about server administration in general. Just a few tips will do if you have time. I mean, say the server crashes, do I just reboot it? (considering it's possible to reboot the machine using the command which is in the reference manuel).
I'm not exactly sure what to ask, so tell me a bit about what things need to be checked on frequently, as well as what software would be needed to run a web server, considering we have about... 8 clients, an ftp server with about 2 hits a day, q-mail with all clients checking mail, as well as maybe 10-15 hits per night on the quake server.
Any other information would be highly appreciated. I have many people around that could help me, but they are CONSTANTLY busy, and i prefer not to bother them, because I tend to talk a lot. =P - Rusty
Now my job is to administer the linux web/mail/ftp/quakeTF server, as well as do bits of php/html. Now, My first question, is where do i start? =)
I have used linux before, and am very comfortable in it's environment, so I am not scared to get into the nitty gritty. So far, I've assembled a pc, consisting of the following hardware components:
amd athlon t-bird 1ghz
512 megs pc133 ram
k7vza revision 3
40 gig ibm deskstar 7200 rpm 8.5ns (were going to buy two scsi drives and connect them using raid)
oh yeh:
floppy =P
Now, we are installing mandrake 8.0 since I have two full loaded reference manuels, as well as a very wide online user group.
First things first, Whenever I administer the server (multiple t-1 connections) I will be remotely administering it about 20-30 minutes away on a dsl connection, as my home 56k connection is, well, next to worthless.
I suppose I will be setting up linux and getting the ftp server/apache/q-mail/quakeTF server setup before we send it down to the server room.
Now, when connecting, would it be wise to telnet into the machine? What other ways of connecting are useful?
when im connected, what exactly do I do then? I will be reading up in the very near future about telnet, and how it works, but in the mean time, could someone please tell me a little something about server administration in general. Just a few tips will do if you have time. I mean, say the server crashes, do I just reboot it? (considering it's possible to reboot the machine using the command which is in the reference manuel).
I'm not exactly sure what to ask, so tell me a bit about what things need to be checked on frequently, as well as what software would be needed to run a web server, considering we have about... 8 clients, an ftp server with about 2 hits a day, q-mail with all clients checking mail, as well as maybe 10-15 hits per night on the quake server.
Any other information would be highly appreciated. I have many people around that could help me, but they are CONSTANTLY busy, and i prefer not to bother them, because I tend to talk a lot. =P - Rusty