Will setup your Ubuntu VPS for free!

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by vpsfan, Sep 21, 2011.

  1. #1
    Free Ubuntu VPS setup, hardening and configuration!

    Mostly for beginners, for your non-production, playground vps. I am an amateur enthusiast, with very little, but perhaps just enough knowledge to offer you the following basic installation/configuration of the following for free:


    • Overall aim: a simple, secure vps with some basic LAMP server functionality and more, with low memory usage.
    • Point your domain name(s) to your vps. Set up hostname and reverse DNS, and some basic DNS records.
    • Firewall: basic but secure iptables firewall, opening only the ports we agree on.
    • Web sever: Cherokee (similar to nginx or lighttpd, with much less memory footprint than Apache, with a great configuration interface).
      • http and https
      • free https certificate accepted by most common browsers
      • If you have more than one domain, we can create virtual webservers for them (one vps serves them, but they will seem as different webservers)
    • MYSQL client and server.
    • PHP
    • Secure FTP: vsftpd (can try other ones).
    • Secure mail server: Incoming and outgoing mail handled with postfix and dovecot. Secure pop3 and imap server.
    • Webmail: Squirrelmail, but might try other ones. On secure, https port.
    • NTP for correct system time.
    • Simple Drupal (or Acquia) and/or Wordpress installation, both with clean URLs enabled.

    You agree:
    • No guarantee at all for anything. You will not have any legal or non legal claim to anything, in relation to this work.
    • I like setting up VPS servers, so I do not intend to, but I might be forced to delay completion or even abandon the work.
    • You might lose data. You back up any data you do not allow to lose.
    • You accept that Ubuntu server is installed on your VPS. (I might change my mind on this later on.)
    • Slow execution time. I am a single father, and have my normal day job, and love to spend a lot of my freetime with my son.

    I prefer...
    • XEN VPS, but will happily try any other
    • a clean, new VPS, but this is not a condition

    Greetings,
    Vpsfan
     
    vpsfan, Sep 21, 2011 IP
  2. afaisol

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    seems interesting to us?
    what are you in normal day job ?
     
    afaisol, Sep 27, 2011 IP
  3. vpsfan

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    Hi,

    The offer is still alive.

    I am mostly an end user supporter and document writer at a small IT company. We mainly make and sell products and services for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino.
     
    vpsfan, Sep 28, 2011 IP