new server setup done right-suggestions

tomdchi

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Feb 24, 2008
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Atlanta, GA
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I am currently using cpanel/whm and my server needs to be replaced so I am about to build a new server. Since there are so many things that can be installed I was hoping someone here could tell me what I NEED to install.

Software:
Running centos 5.2-aside from what cpanel installs for me what modules would be best in a web hosting environment (apache modules). I will be doing a lot of php websites with most of them having whmcs and Open Realty installed. At this time I will be administering all of the sites-no other users. I may in the future sell space to individual users.

My current Apache build:
Apache:
optmods:
Access: 1
Actions: 1
Alias: 1
Asis: 0
AuthAnon: 0
AuthDB: 0
AuthDBM: 0
AuthDigest: 0
AuthLDAP: 0
AuthnAlias: 0
AuthnAnon: 0
AuthnDBD: 0
AuthnDBM: 0
AuthnDefault: 0
AuthnzLDAP: 0
AuthzDBM: 0
AuthzHost: 1
AuthzOwner: 0
Autoindex: 1
Bucketeer: 0
Cache: 0
CaseFilter: 0
CaseFilterIn: 0
CernMeta: 0
CharsetLite: 0
DAVFs: 0
DAVLock: 0
DBD: 0
DIR: 1
Dav: 1
Deflate: 0
DiskCache: 0
Distcache: 0
Dumpio: 0
Echo: 0
Env: 0
Expires: 1
ExtFilter: 0
Fastcgi: 1
FileCache: 1
Fileprotect: 0
Frontpage: 1
Headers: 1
Ident: 0
Imagemap: 0
LDAP: 0
LogAgent: 0
LogConfig: 1
LogForensic: 0
LogReferer: 0
MPMEvent: 0
MPMLeader: 0
MPMPerchild: 0
MPMPrefork: 0
MPMThreadpool: 0
MPMWorker: 0
MemCache: 0
Mime: 1
MimeMagic: 0
MmapStatic: 0
Negotiation: 1
OptionalFnExport: 0
OptionalFnImport: 0
OptionalHookExport: 0
OptionalHookImport: 0
PHPAsUser: 0
Proxy: 0
RaiseFDSetsize: 0
RaiseHardServerLimit: 0
Rewrite: 0
Setenvif: 1
Speling: 0
Status: 1
UniqueId: 0
Userdir: 1
Usertrack: 0
Version: 0
VhostAlias: 0
version: 2_2
Cpanel::Easy::EAccelerator: 1
Cpanel::Easy::IonCubeLoader: 1
Cpanel::Easy::ModBandwidth: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModGzip: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModJk5: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModMono: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModPerl: 0
Cpanel::Easy::ModSec: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::4_4: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::4_5: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::4_6: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::4_7: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::4_8: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Bcmath: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Bz2: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::CGI: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Calendar: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Concurrent: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Curl: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::CurlSSL: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::DBX: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Dbase: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::DiscardPath: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::DomXslt: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Exif: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::FTP: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Fastcgi: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::ForceCGIRedirect: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::GD: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Gettext: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::HardPHP: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Iconv: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Imap: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Java: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::MM: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::MagicQuotes: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::MailHeaders: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Mbregex: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Mbstring: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Mcrypt: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::MemoryLimit: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Mhash: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::MimeMagic: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Ming: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::MysqlOfSystem: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Openssl: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::PDFLib: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::POSIX: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::PathInfoCheck: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::PcreRegex: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Pear: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Pgsql: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Pspell: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::SNMP: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::SafeMode: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::SafePHPCGI: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Sockets: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Swf: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::TTF: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Versioning: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Wddx: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::XmlRPC: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::XsltSablot: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::ZendMultibyte: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Zip: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP4::Zlib: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::2_3: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::2_4: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::2_5: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::2_6: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Bcmath: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Bz2: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::CGI: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Calendar: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Concurrent: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Curl: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::CurlSSL: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Curlwrappers: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::DBX: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Dbase: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::DiscardPath: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Exif: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::FTP: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Fastcgi: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::ForceCGIRedirect: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::GD: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Gettext: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::HardPHP: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Iconv: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Imap: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Java: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MM: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MagicQuotes: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MailHeaders: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mbregex: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mbstring: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mcrypt: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MemoryLimit: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mhash: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MimeMagic: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Ming: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mysql: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::MysqlOfSystem: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Mysqli: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Openssl: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::PDFLib: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::PDO: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::PDOMySQL: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::POSIX: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::PathInfoCheck: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Pear: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Pgsql: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Pspell: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SNMP: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SOAP: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SafeMode: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::SafePHPCGI: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Sockets: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Swf: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::TTF: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Tidy: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Versioning: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Wddx: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::WithoutIconv: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::XSL: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::XmlRPC: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::XsltSablot: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::ZendMultibyte: 0
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Zip: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::Zlib: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHP5::cPPHPOpts: 1
Cpanel::Easy::PHPSuHosin: 0
Cpanel::Easy::SourceGuardian: 0
Cpanel::Easy::Zendopt: 1
_meta:
implies:
changed: {}

circles: {}

Does any of the above need to be included and does any of the installed ones need to be discarded?


Hardware:

Proposed server specs:
Intel Xeon E3110 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor

kingston 4GB (4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) w/ecc and unbuffered

2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (RAID 1)

SUPERMICRO|MBD-X7SBL-LN1-O R-server motherboard


Sorry for such a long post but I really want to get this right. Any suggestions welcomed!

Tom
 
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