question for all the linux fans.

I been using linux for 7 months now, and found the system to be very challenging and metaly draining.


what are your first steps to building a home server.?

I seem to get foxed with all the extra commands and different ways to build a server via the command line.

What are your easy steps to bumping up a server to host a web site with a couple of extra subdomain names, using php, mysql..etc etc. from the command line.

I'm just wondering how other people build their system

TT

First I decide what I want the server to do. FTP, HTTP, File-serving, Web-proxying. Once I decide on what it is to do, I then move on to how I will administer it, ssh, rdesktop, etc. That tells me additional software I will need to install. Third I write a firewall script to cover the decisions made above. Then it is a custom install of my distro of choice, and installing the software. I always do the server software installations from source, that way a simple recompile can be done without having to wait for a download to add modules or functionality. Hope that helps..