Introduction

• What are Cloud Servers?
• Cloud Servers SLA
• Cloud Servers FAQ

Read These If You're New To Cloud Servers

• Getting Started with Cloud Servers
• Creating a Cloud Server
• Shutting Down and Restarting a Cloud Server
• Creating a Cloud Server from a Backup Image
• Using a Custom Kernel with pv-grub

Read These If You're New To Linux

• Logging in via Putty
• SSH - PuTTYgen
• SSH - Socks Proxy
• Tar and untar
• Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• General Package Installation Guidelines
• Basic Cloud Server Security

Secure Your Server

Policies

• Minimalism
• System Updates

Monitoring

• Logs
• Security Advisories

Access Control

• Physical Security
• Password Security
• Secure Shell
• File and Directory Permissions

Firewalls

• Firewalls
• Introduction to iptables
• Sample iptables ruleset
• Installing fwbuilder
• Port Knocking
• Common iptables rules for RHEL 5.3
• RHEL 5.3 - Installing APF and BFD

Cryptography

• Hashing and Encryption

SSL

• SSL/TLS
• Generate a CSR
• Installing an SSL certificate

Malicious Code

• Scanning for Rootkits with chkrootkit
• Scanning for Rootkits with rkhunter

Use Your Domain Name

Record Management

• DNS - Creating a DNS Record
• DNS - Creating a Reverse DNS Record

Tools

• DNS - Introduction to dig

What Would You Like To Do?

Set Up A Website

Apache

• How to Serve Multiple Domains
• Introduction to Virtual Hosts
• Multiple Hosts Layout
• Virtual Hosts Permissions

Load Balancing

• Simple Load Balancing
• Load Balancing an SSL site

Failover

• IP Failover - High Availability Explained
• IP Failover - Setup and Installing Heartbeat

Maintain Databases

MySQL

MySQL usage and configuration

• MySQL - Resetting a lost MySQL root password
• MySQL - Creating and editing users
• MySQL - Modify user permissions
• MySQL - List Databases
• MySQL - Creating and Deleting Databases
• MySQL - Creating and Deleting Tables
• MySQL - Creating/Editing Columns and Records
• MySQL - Importing and Exporting MySQL Databases
• MySQL - Connect to your database remotely

MySQL Replication

• MySQL replication - Master/Slave

PostgreSQL

Usage

• PostgreSQL - Creating and Dropping Roles
• PostgreSQL - Access Control
• PostgreSQL - Local Connections as postgres

Send And Receive Mail

Postfix

These tutorials will walk you through a manual Postfix installation.  This is intended for advanced audiences only.

First Steps

• Preparing the Cloud Server
• Setting a Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record

Sending Mail

• Postfix - Installation
• Postfix - Basic Settings in main.cf
• Postfix - MX Records and Receiving Emails
• Postfix - Using Telnet to Test Postfix
• Postfix - Checking for an Open Relay

Mail Server Setup

• Mail Server - Overview
• Mail Server - Vmail User and Mailboxes
• Mail Server - Postfix and MySQL Installation
• Mail Server - Creating the MySQL Database
• Mail Server - Configuring Postfix to Use MySQL
• Mail Server - Secure Connection - Configuring saslauthd
• Mail Server - Secure Connection - Creating the SSL Certificate
• Mail Server - Secure connection - Configuring Postfix
• Mail Server - Courier Installation
• Mail Server - Opening Ports in the Firewall
• Mail Server - Adding domains and users to MySQL

Develop Applications

Subversion and svnserve

• Introduction to subversion
• Introduction to svnserve
• Using SSH with svnserve
• Multiple projects and subversion
• Multiple repositories and subversion

Set Up A Graphical User Interface

• VNC Install
• X over SSH

Continued Administration

Common Tasks

• Using wget

System Monitoring

• System Monitoring with top
• System Monitoring with htop
• Memory Management with free

Troubleshooting

• Basic Network Troubleshooting
• SSH - "REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED"

Backups

• Creating a backup image of a Cloud Server

rsync

• Backing up your files with rsync
• Excluding Certain Files or Directories
• Automating a Daily rsync Backup