[clue] nuts and bolts, self-hosting on a $40 computer: my server

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To be honest, the thread was mostly a stab in the face.
But, I am open to critique on the setup and suggestions on what to improve 
upon package wise for security.
I have php, ruby, python, and perl on the apache server ready to go.
As far as fail2ban goes I can check the logs right?
Maybe when I get into it and read what the error/warning messages are I can 
post something that means something?
As it is right now I just briefly looked at the error messages and moved on to 
install the other packages( I don't even remeber what the messages were..).
Cloning lvms is new to me so I will have to read up on it, any reference links 
welcome.
And, from what I know, it is possible to run virtual machines as servers with 
a dynamic IP because I have done it.
So basically I am looking for suggestions on packages that will improve the 
seecutiry of the web and email side if I haven't covered them with what I 
mentioned ( fail2ban, spamassasin, clamav, mod-evasive ).
I need to research more, this I know but heck I look forward to the hard work 
and payoff, which is hosting business websites. 
I need to work on a few things before I get my ports forwarded, this I know, 
but at the same time I figured I would talk about it because it was suggested 
I talk about it and I felt the time was neccessary.
And when the ports get forwarded I will solicit for people to view the web 
pages created by the web page engine I have been working on a very long time.
but, first things first: get the server up so that it doesn't die, get my code 
copyrighten, and then advertise my webspace and web pages.
:)
ed.
On Thursday, June 21, 2012 08:14:58 AM mike havlicek wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> So are you asking 2 questions and a partial 3?
>  
> 1) Is it possible to run a server supporting my applications {A,B,C ...} in
> virtual host  without a static IP? 2) Why is Application D=fail2ban
> problematic in my configuration?
>  
> partial=disk layout suggestions for migrating between virtual and physical
> hardware: 
> Thought on partial is that it can have a dependency on choice of
> virtualization platform. E.G. I had fun toggling an ubuntu jeos system
> between direct server install on RAID, VMware guest, and a Xen guest
> surrounding the disk layout (things like device file names in configuration
> files required some attention...) 
> -Mike