CentOS 5 64bit cPanel Template.
Built with 512MB’s RAM for easy scale up.

root@domain [/]# free -m
total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           768        285        482          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:        285        482
Swap:            0          0          0
root@domain [/]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs             25G  4.1G   21G  17% /
none                  384M  4.0K  384M   1% /dev
root@domain [~]# uname -a
Linux domain.com 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab070.14 #1 SMP Thu Nov 18 16:34:01 MSK 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@domain [~]#

Things ToDo:
Set Host Name
Set Contact Information
Setup Name Servers / Cluster DNS
Setup Packages
Configure Backups
Set TimeZone
/usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt

Notes:
File System Quotas are enabled.

Installed Software / Setup.

Apache 2.2.17
mod_flvx – FLV Streaming Support.
Ruby on Rails
Ruby Gems
flvtool2
mplayer
mencoder
PHP 5.2.9
MySQL 5.0.91

ConfigServer Firewall
ConfigServer Mail Manage
ConfigServer Mail Queues
Account DNS Check
Clean Backups
Softaculous Free

Please post any problems, hints, tricks, or updates you think should be added to this.

This install has been tweaked up, decked out, hopped up, and ready to go.

I have tested this template install from 512MB – 8GB’s and it loads up each time.

Download size 1.3GB’s

http://mirrors.rubyringtech.com/openvz/

The scripts are a txt file so make sure you take a look at it in a browser just to make sure.

** These two scripts are designed for CentOS 5.x 32 or 64bit.

From the SSH prompt run either of the following depending if you are on a dedicated server or vps.

If Dedicated Server:

cd /root
wget http://scripts.rubyringtech.com/setupserver.txt
mv setupserver.txt setupserver.sh
chmod 777 setupserver.sh
./setupserver.sh
reboot

or for a VPS

cd /root
wget http://scripts.rubyringtech.com/setupvps.txt
mv setupvps.txt setupvps.sh
chmod 777 setupvps.sh
./setupvps.sh

reboot

Hope this helps make basic setup much easier.

BlueOnyx is a Linux distribution (based on CentOS v5.5) which aims at delivering a turnkey server appliance for webhosting. It comes with a web based GUI interface which allows you (and your email, FTP and webhosting clients!) to manage most aspects of the server, its sites and accounts through a browser based interface. It is open source software, released under a Sun modified BSD license.

BlueOnyx is a modernized fork of BlueQuartz and has been developed by Solarspeed.net and NuOnce Networks, Inc. and A lot of improvements and enhancements (compared to a regular BlueQuartz) went into BlueOnyx. Including support for Java Servlet Pages, built in web based email, phpMyAdmin for you and your webhosting clients and provisions to automatically create MySQL databases and users for each virtual site.

Our template is already on all our VPS Servers ready to deploy in a matter of minutes!

This template takes all the benefits of the Blueonyx control panel, and has it setup and ready to go on a VPS.
We have made sure to test and test and test if you find any bugs please let us know. This template is a base install with the following tweaks/updates.

• All updates applied and installed as of Oct 13, 2010
• MySQL my.cnf file tweaked for amazing performance
• CSF and LFD Firewalls installed and running
• 2038 SSL Bug fixed
• Optimized for 512MB – 1024MB VPS
• 307 MB’s of RAM used on clean boot
• 1.2GB’s Disk Space fresh install

Please feel free to use this template on your vps systems.
** admin and root Passwords set to: blueonyx **

You can get the image from our download mirror at http://mirrors.rubyringtech.com/openvz/ or order a VPS from us today!

However running a few simple commands and updating a single file can produce a massive increase in performance.

** Please note that there are other issues that can cause poor performance **

Example Bad Network Cable, Cheap Switch, Overloaded Router, and others.

Run the following commands from the prompt.

mv /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl.bak
cd /etc
wget http://www.setupalinuxserver.com/files/sysctl.conf.txt
mv sysctl.conf.txt sysctl.conf
/sbin/sysctl -p
/sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.route.flush=1

You should see a performance increase right away.  Please let me know if this helps you out or not.

All the VPS’s include 1IP Address, at least 2GHz of CPU Power, and 10Mbps Unmettered Bandwidth ! http://rubyringtech.com/vps_solutions.html

VPS256

• OpenVZ
• 10 GB’s Disk Space
• 256 MB’s RAM
• 512 MB’s Burstable
• $4.49/Month

VPS512

• OpenVZ
• 25 GB’s Disk Space
• 512 MB’s RAM
• 768 MB’s Burstable
• $7.49/Month

VPS1024

• OpenVZ
• 50 GB’s Disk Space
• 1024 MB’s RAM
• 1280 MB’s Burstable
• $9.49/Month

Think about this for a moment…

What happens when your web host has a failure and your account get’s damaged or worse case scenario, the web host loses everything.?

Do you rely on your web host to take backups for you? Check the fine print of most web hosts terms of service and they will state that they are not responsible for your data, even if it’s their fault. Great isn’t it.

So what’s the solution. Simple. Backup your data regularly.

Let me tell you how to do it on cPanel web servers, it’s quite labour intensive.

a) Go to your http://yourwebsite.com:2082 and enter in your login credentials.
b) Go to the Backup icon (will look different depending on your cPanel theme)
c) Click on the link to download the home directory backup (this will take all your files)
d) Click on the links to download your databases
e) Click on the links to download your email filters or email aliases

Now do that once a week or month for your home directory (files) and everyday for your databases like WordPress, Forums, Shopping Carts, Email Lists.

No thanks I have better things to do with my time.

That’s where Backup Smart comes in. It’s a desktop software application that runs on Windows and MAC OSX. It automates the whole backup process I’ve just outlined for you.

You just set it and forget it. Backups are done on a schedule set by you, it’s just so easy.

If you even have just one website with a database then you need this software to protect your assests. But if you have more than one website on different servers with multiple databases then this software is a huge time saver and you’ll wonder how you ever did without it.

Check out all the details at…
http://atorreso.backup-smart.com

To Your Success,

Anthony Torreso

Command Syntax

find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

Note that there are spaces between rm, {}, and \;

Explanation

• The first argument is the path to the files. This can be a path, a directory, or a wildcard as in the example above. I would recommend using the full path, and make sure that you run the command without the exec rm to make sure you are getting the right results.
• The second argument, -mtime, is used to specify the number of days old that the file is. If you enter +5, it will find files older than 5 days.
• The third argument, -exec, allows you to pass in a command such as rm. The {} \; at the end is required to end the command.

This should work on Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat, or pretty much any version of linux.

Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/delete-files-older-than-x-days-on-linux/

This is a simple test to tell if AOL has you blocked. First SSH into your server or vps the run this following command.

telnet mailin-01.mx.aol.com 25

If you get a response your not blocked, if no response well you are. Then you have to go down the fun path of fixing this.

Again assuming you can SSH into the box.

yum -y install nano
yum -y install yum-priorities
wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm –import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
wget http://dag.linux.iastate.edu/dag/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm –import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://dag.linux.iastate.edu/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1

Save and Exit

yum -y install perl-libwww-perl
yum -y update

chkconfig cups off
chkconfig pcmcia off
chkconfig kudzu off
chkconfig isdn off
chkconfig xfs off
chkconfig atd off
chkconfig nfslock off
chkconfig canna off
chkconfig FreeWnn off
chkconfig cups-config-daemon off
chkconfig iiim off
chkconfig mDNSResponder off
chkconfig nifd off
chkconfig rpcidmapd off
chkconfig bluetooth off
chkconfig anacron off
chkconfig gpm off
chkconfig saslauthd off
chkconfig avahi-daemon off
chkconfig avahi-dnsconfd off
chkconfig hidd off
chkconfig pcscd off
chkconfig sbadm off
chkconfig ossec off
chkconfig acpid off
chkconfig dhcpd off
chkconfig firstboot off

mkdir /root/source
cd /root/source
wget http://www.configserver.com/free/csf.tgz
tar -xzf csf.tgz
cd csf
sh install.sh

nano /etc/csf/csf.conf

Change TESTING=”1″ to TESTING=”0″
AUTO_UPDATES=”0″ to AUTO_UPDATES=”1″

TCP_IN = “20,21,22,25,26,37,43,53,80,106,110,113,143,443,465,587,873,990,993,995,1129,2077,2078,2082,2083,2086,2087,2095,2096,3306,5224,5432,7777,7778,8443,8880,8888,8889,9080,10000,30000:35000″
TCP_OUT = “20,21,22,25,26,37,43,53,80,106,110,113,143,443,465,587,873,990,993,995,1129,2077,2078,2082,2083,2086,2087,2095,2096,3306,5224,5432,7777,7778,8443,8880,8888,8889,9080,10000″
UDP_IN = “20,21,53,953″
UDP_OUT = “20,21,53,113,123,953,33434:33523″

service csf restart
service lfd restart

reboot

. Add Passive Port range 30000-350000 to your Pureftp or Proftp configuration file
(i) Pureftpd
open /etc/pure-ftpd.conf, and this line
PassivePortRange    30000 35000
(ii) ProFTP
Open /etc/proftpd.conf, and add this line
PassivePorts    30000 35000

Now there are many other things you can do, root kit hunters and log rotators and more. However depending on your needs this alone will get you off to a good start.

Add the following lines to the lighttpd.conf file.

server.max-keep-alive-requests = 4
server.max-keep-alive-idle = 4
server.event-handler = “linux-sysepoll”
server.network-backend = “linux-sendfile”
server.max-fds = 8192
server.stat-cache-engine = “simple”

As you can see from the following image, things are moving along nicely.

The current load on the server is 0.0 and the ram used it 66MB’s for live stats check out this link.  System Usage.