My first blog

Well seeing as this blog is a way for me to document what i do to the servers i use i should start by giving some specs on the main server it self.

My main server is hosted by INX-Gaming at Bluesquare Datacentre, Maidenhead.
Its a self managed dedicated server with a 100mbit connection
Dell PowerEdge 860 1U rack mount
Intel Xeon Dual core CPU 3040
Ram 4GB (2x 2GB DDR2)
Hard drive sata 250GB
Its running Linux CentOS 5.4 with the PAE kernel.

I've installed Webmin and Virtualmin GPL to make configuring and administration a bit easier although i still do most of the settings by hand but it makes adding websites and checking log files much easier.
The box is setup and custom tuned for web-hosting(apache), email(postfix/dovecot), and Mysql, the box currently hosts 5 websites, 3 of which are for my gaming clan Smurfs of War and 2 are mine, this site and my business Websters Computers it also currently hosts a few game servers - Trackmania forever (its a free game give it a try) and a voice server (teamspeak 3).
I have also setup ipv6 using a tunnel from Hurricane Electric IPv6 Tunnel Broker this allows me to connect to all websites and email via either ipv4 or ipv6 (i'll be doing a blog about ipv6 shortly).

The next blog will deal with the basic setup of the server from scratch.