Hey all, I got tired of having to share a server with tons of other people so I decided to try out administrating my own box. I bought a nice small one with 256 megs of ram, just to try out a test site or two and see how I like it. I thought I knew enough about nix administration to get it installed and working, but I guess I was wrong. I got it installed, but here is my problem I have to set a hostname for the server, I am not entirely sure what this is. I googled it and from the looks of it, it's just a subdomain to get to the server. whatever.something.com I'm not sure what my hostname should be..I know it can't be random but what can it be? I have multiple domains registered with other sites I could use but there are no nameservers I can set for them..or are there? Sorry for the rambling of questions and such but learning this would help me greatly Thanks P.S: I looked on google but there dont seem to be many tutorials that exactly explain this information
Don't forget server security.. You won't like managing your server, if you have to deal with restoring your server after a hack. http://www.mnxsolutions.com/blog/apache/securing-your-server.html for some additional points on server security.