My Linux server

Now that school is officially off till Spring, I have been doing a lot of work on my “test-bed” server at home. I pretty much try to replicate a small business environment. I use this server to gain experience configuring and administrating services. Currently, it runs:

• Web sever (Apache and PHP) – I run WordPress (this blog and IAmBelmin blog), MediaWiki for wiki.bfworks.com and a couple of other PHP based sites.
• Database server (MySQL) – Using MySQL for the database back-end of the sites hosted on the box.
• Firewall/Router (IPTables) – Wrote up some custom IPTables rules to secure and route my network. Currently have two subnets–wired and wireless.
• DHCP server (DHCPd) – Configured to give IPs to computers connecting to the network based on the subnet they are on.
• Nameserver (BIND) – Through DHCPd updates A and PTR record for new clients on the server under the internal domain iambelmin.lan.
• Filesharing (Samba) – Made a couple of shares, private and public, for my internal network
• Other Linux services (SSH, NTP, etc.) – Services of typical Linux installations.

While school is off, I plan to write up a few Wiki articles concerning some of my configurations and administration practices. This is mostly for my own benefit since having things documented will help me better understand why I did things a certain way later in the future. As of now, I have most of my configuration files pretty heavily documented so this should not be a difficult task.