Lee Newton » unmanaged http://www.blogmeetsworld.com all the splinters of my mind Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:38:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 step the first… http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/step-the-first/ http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/step-the-first/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:00:42 +0000 LRN http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/?p=24 So all our new b5media servers are about to be handed off to me so I can start work on turning them into a super fast, merciless thresher of incoming requests. Standing up  this sort of server arrangement is a first for me, since I inherited the one b5media uses now. This is at once [...]

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]]> So all our new b5media servers are about to be handed off to me so I can start work on turning them into a super fast, merciless thresher of incoming requests. Standing up  this sort of server arrangement is a first for me, since I inherited the one b5media uses now. This is at once daunting and highly exhilarating. 40 servers, where to start?

Well the first thing I know I want to do is secure the machines to a reasonable level. This means removing any unnecessary packages, making sure only required services are running on each of the servers. I’ve chosen to run Centos 5 on these machines, as I have the most experience in RedHat variants.

To that end, here’s a link to the Secure Centos project. It’s still a work in progress, and you’ll want to double check their suggestions and not follow blindly, but it’s a great place to start for ideas and methods for securing a new server in an unmanaged environment.

Well, off I go to survey my new domain, more to come!

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