Building A Web-And Mail Server With CentOS 4.3

hausmasta writes "This is a detailed description how to set up a CentOS 4.3 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.). This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of CentOS 4.3, but should apply to the 32-bit version with very little modifications as well."

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Centos Mirror

[zerocool^]

Obvious:

CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise, with a :s/RedHat/CentOS/g on the code. They download the RHEL Source RPMs and compile and release it. FYI.

Not so obvious:

They also recompile for additional arches, most notably Alpha (I have a couple of faculty members who don't want to be rid of their Digital machines; this makes a great alternative to paying $1000+/year for a True64 license to HP who hasn't looked at the code for 4.x since they bought it).

Get it here:

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.ph p?id=13
There are a LOT of mirrors, and being on the listserv, I see more and more being added all the time. Including lots of tier 1 mirrors at Universities, if you're on Internet2. There are also lots of local mirrors around the world, so if you're not a USAian, check for one in your locale; you may get better speeds than a general mirror.
Best mirror? http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/ =)

~Will

Re:Centos Mirror

[buysse]

Redhat has copyright-protected, non-redistributable graphics and docs.

Otherwise, CentOS is RHEL. People do pay Redhat to supply support -- for most corp installs, it is that important. There are a few edge cases as well -- if you're running any commercial software, like Oracle, SPSS, or SAS -- you will definitely run RHEL over CentOS, or your vendor won't even talk to you.

For an academic install, RHEL is cheap enough that it's worth the cost ($50/year/host) to have the possibility of support. Just like it's worth the $120/year/host for basic service on Solaris 10 machines.