Im thinking of getting a dedicated server. I know which one i want after looking around for a while and im going to get unlimited Cpanel/WHM license with it. All want to know is for those who have more experience dealing with dedicated servers what other things should you install? Ex: php, apache, etc. Any advice is welcome. :)

Hi there,
For your information, cPanel/WHM will install php, Apache & Perl for you.

Perhaps you will need to install a firewall on the server? And also MRTG to monitor your server?

Thanks.

cPanel/WHM comes with all the things you need to have a fully functional web server.

I would suggest APF as a good firewall, and perhaps grsecurity for extra seurity :)

i second apf and grsecurity. also look into mod_security

another vote for APF. Also, when you order your setup try and have the DC set a separate partition for /tmp and have them set it up noexec,nosuid,rw. If you can't get them do to that, make sure you run the cpanel /scripts/securetmp script. There is lots of other stuff you should really do as well to lock the box down. Cpanel by default is not very secure at all, so if you don't know how to lock down your server, find someone that can do it for you. Regardless of what it costs you, it will be worth it, believe me.

Thanks alot everyone, ill make sure to take a look at those suggestions before starting anything :)

THANKS

Originally posted by bitstream
another vote for APF. Also, when you order your setup try and have the DC set a separate partition for /tmp and have them set it up noexec,nosuid,rw. If you can't get them do to that, make sure you run the cpanel /scripts/securetmp script. There is lots of other stuff you should really do as well to lock the box down. Cpanel by default is not very secure at all, so if you don't know how to lock down your server, find someone that can do it for you. Regardless of what it costs you, it will be worth it, believe me.

I want to buy APF seen that many of you recomend it. Where should i go to buy it or where did you guys got yours from?

Originally posted by vision3
I want to buy APF seen that many of you recomend it. Where should i go to buy it or where did you guys got yours from?

The APF store.

I just install APF

./install.sh

After following the intruction of changing the config file. Then I started the APF

/root/to/apf -s

Is this all i have to do?