Hosting a forum on GNU/Linux/BSD

CSF looks awsome, something i could use on a new PBX deployment for some added security.

petteyg359 said:

IMNSHO, CSF beats the pants off of APF.

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Yeah there's that too...

CSF you have a few things you need to remember to prevent locking yourself out

CSF is awesome for Direct Admin / cPanel based servers though once you get it set up

Never used it as a stand alone though so can't comment on it's UI by itself.

rollincoaster said:

Never used it as a stand alone though so can't comment on it's UI by itself.

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All the cPanel "UI" does is display the text content of the .conf files, and replace any line that isn't a comment (starting with #) with a text input to set the value of an option. You can edit those files by hand whether you're using cPanel or not.

Small update
Like i said nothing illegal.
I will not be hosting from home, it will be from work with a business IP package or whatever is needed to be 100% legit.

Turnkey was supper easy for a proof of concept phpBB board.

Next i started playing with Zimbra...
Well the amount of manual setting up you need to do makes that turnkey install worthless.
So doing a real linux install and adding it in by hand now.


Boss want easy to manage if i am gone like i said before....
So it does look like the VM option is the easiest to do as you can back the entire VM up.
If something does go wrong, just use a backup.