Our mission with Guide to Web Hosting is to continually provide and update installation procedures and configuration to build a cost effective, secure and efficient web hosting system.

The Internet and email are becoming increasingly important elements of our daily lives. Websites are considered to be one of the premier marketing tools available today to promote our products or services. For a small business, setting up and maintaining websites and email services requires a substantial investment in time and technical knowledge. This document will provide you with the technical knowledge necessary to set up websites and email services.

This is a guide for programmers / administrators. The reader must have a basic working knowledge of Linux, mySQL, and Internet technologies.

Here are just a few of the new items in the second edition:

- New chapter, “Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla Installation,” covering integration of Apache server to these popular CMS open source applications.

- Coverage of new PHP and APC installation including Apache server benchmarking tool and APC settings.

- Updated coverage of httpd.conf and iptables rules to avoid IP Spoofing and bad address attacks.

- Coverage of new SELinux XE "SELinux"  including cache_threshold, hash_stats and avcstat.

- New mod_security XE "mod_security"  integration with Apache web server.

- Tomcat upgrade with multilple virtual hosting.