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Hi everyone,

I have just recently purchased a Fedora Dedicated server and have Apache installed. However I am looking for recommendations on FTP server software, Email server software and DNS software and any other software you think I might need.

Any suggestions on what you guys use would be great.

Thanks

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tried Postfix ? really works nicely.

Exim is nice MTA

Bind works nicely.

what do you really want to do on this server ? if your needs are specific then more things can be recommended.

BTW try to secure your server first.

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FTP server, my choice would be vsftpd.

I agree with kyro on email and DNS servers, postfix is very easy to configure (if it is a simple setup) and bind is pretty much the standard.

There is also djbdns, written by D. J. Bernstein, http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html. I have installed and configured both bind and djbdns, and I have to say that djbdns was more difficult to configure.

Also, following kryo's advice again, try to secure your server with SELinux (comes with Fedora) and the firewall.

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I use VSFTPD for FTP, BIND 9 for DNS, and Exim for mail. Of course apache for HTTP, unless you are wanting to do some high-performance rails apps, which in that case I would use mongrel/nginx or lightHTTPD

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For ftp,

I used to use VSFTPD, but if your looking to setup virtual accounts, pure-ftpd makes this really simple on fedora.

You can have multiple virtual accounts use the same linux user account.

There's plenty of tutorials.

If you don't need virtual users, VSFTPD is probably the way to go.

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Im pretty sure you will already have an ftp server installed most likely proftpd, it really depends on what you plan on using your server for, but yeah like one previous post said i would look into securing your server first before you start doing anything with it, any standard setup is pretty well open to attacks.

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