Connected and Going
September 12, 2010So far so good with Ubuntu 10.04 Server. I’ve been very pleased with how easy it is to get up and running. Right now I have the server configured in a standalone mode and not as a cloud implementation. Though, I’m thinking that if I have a site that will generate a lot of traffic, then configuring a cloud would be fun.
I’ve got SSH up and running and can now connect via my laptop and my desktop system. Here are the resources I used to get it setup:
The updating of the server is nice and easy, I just need to run the following command:
sudo apt-get upgrade
The server boots up very quickly and when installing Ubuntu on ESXi, I just chose Linux -> Ubuntu 64bit. The install was very straight forward with easy to understand questions. The big concern I’ll have is security. With FreeBSD I am fairly confident that it is locked down very nicely. But I’m guessing that as long as I keep the software patched, use reasonable precautions, that I’ll be okay.
The only other piece of software I’ve loaded up was VSFTPD and I used this resource for configuration:
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/C/ftp-server.html
I may circle back and get Xinetd for both my VSFTPD server and SSH server so both processes are not constantly running using memory.
I needed and FTP server up and running to get my SSH keys uploaded and the configuration was incredibly simple. I’ve to say I love the easy to use documenation I’ve found for Ubuntu so far. My biggest complaint over the years about Linux (and I what I think holds it back) is the hard to understand documenation.
At this point I’m off to configure Bind9 and I’ll give another writeup on how that goes.
