Linux Tips & Tricks

What I love about our global Linux community - is that everybody tries to help the other. Maybe, it is changing, but I never heard anything like “pay me and I will tell you why this thing is not working”.  Of course, not everybody is savvy, some folks just give you plain wrong advice, so watch it, guys.

Yet, one may see, who knows his subject really well, when you start meeting the guy and try to do what he says and it, basically, works. In the previous entry I was talking about CentOS and how good it is.  Now, there is this guy whose nickname is “falko”. I don’t know where he is from. For all I know, he is from Europe, possibly from Berlin (but I could be wrong).

For several years he helps Linux community with Howto tutorials. He has the whole series that he calls “perfect server”, where he tells how to set up a LAMP server with DNS, E-mail and FTP and put on top of it open source web hosting panel ISPConfig. I can’t agree 100 % with what he recommends and this is understandable. First of all, I don’t use ISPConfig, I avoid ProFTPd and  I am not in web hosting business, I work for web analytics company.  Yet, I must admit, that falko is pretty consistent and with a little tweaking,  you can adjust his recommendations to your needs.

So, I appreciate this guy’s help because he has been writing his stuff about perfect CentOs, Fedora and RedHat Linux server installation for several years. As soon as a new version appears, I bet there will be  new falko’s tutorials with pictures and detailed explanations. I also like that in each tutorial he tells how to set up Postfix with TLS, and that part always works, if you follow him line by line.

To make a long story short,  I recommend you to try his latest stuff, related to CentOS installation for web hosting, and if you like it you can read more of his words of wisdom spread all over  HowToForge web site.

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