Virtual Vendor - My online money making journey http://www.virtual-vendor.net My quest for a passive income. Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:59:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en Cpanel is installed http://www.virtual-vendor.net/cpanel-is-installed/ http://www.virtual-vendor.net/cpanel-is-installed/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:07:09 +0000 VirtualVendor http://www.virtual-vendor.net/cpanel-is-installed/ Well I finally got time to sit down and work on installing Cpanel. I followed this guide at the Cpanel forums and was able to get everything working without any problems. I am currently running on the 15 day trial license and hope to be purchasing my full license in the next few days. I still have not decided where to colo this server. So at this point in time I have it at my house creating a very loud office environment.

The software raid running on the box seems to work flawlessly. I can say I had my doubts as I am used to running hardware raid on PERC controllers. I decided to go ahead and mirror the swap and /tmp so I could have full redundancy. Soon I hope to be posting about my first website hosted on this machine.

]]> http://www.virtual-vendor.net/cpanel-is-installed/feed/ Server has arrived http://www.virtual-vendor.net/server-has-arrived/ http://www.virtual-vendor.net/server-has-arrived/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:20:14 +0000 VirtualVendor http://www.virtual-vendor.net/server-has-arrived/ The server arrived today and I was able to get CentOS installed. I will hopefully finish up the WHM/CPanel install tomorrow and start securing the server. This will be my first attempt at installing and securing a Cpanel install so hopefully I don’t miss something important and leave my whole server vulnerable to attacks. I must say the Dell SC1435 is a little louder than I expected it to be. I’m glad I don’t have to sit with it in the same area as me for much longer as I wouldn’t be able to hear people on the phone if I did. I will try to keep a good running diary of the setup that hopefully will help others in the future who are newbies like me.

]]> http://www.virtual-vendor.net/server-has-arrived/feed/ My first purchase http://www.virtual-vendor.net/my-first-purchase/ http://www.virtual-vendor.net/my-first-purchase/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:21:32 +0000 admin http://www.virtual-vendor.net/my-first-purchase/ I bought the following server from Dell this past weekend. I plan to install CentOS with software RAID and Cpanel. This server should arrive tomorrow (Tuesday April 3rd). I hope to get CentOS and the trial version of Cpanel on it by the end of the day. I have not decided where to colo the server but I will hopefully make that decision soon.

PowerEdge SC1435 Dual Core AMD Opteron® 2210; 1.8GHz,2X1MB Cache,1Ghz HyperTransport
2GB, 667MHz, 2×1GB Single Ranked DIMMs
PCI Riser Riser with 1 PCIe Slot
1st Hard Drive 80GB, SATA II, 3.5-inch, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive
Primary Controller Onboard SATA Controller - No RAID
Network Adapters On-Board Dual Port Gigabit Network Adapter, No TOE
CD/DVD Drive 24X IDE CD-ROM
2nd Hard Drive 80GB, SATA II, 3.5-inch, 7.2K RPM Hard Drive
HD Configuration Onboard SATA, 2 Drives connected to Onboard SATA Controller - NO RAID

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