LinuxAdministration

This page forms the entry point to the documentation of my self-hosting project. Most of the pages referenced here provide details how to configure parts of the system, but a few pages also provide general information about a topic, such as details on SSL certificates on the ServiceEncryptionWithSSL page.

NOTE: I gave up the self-hosting project around March 2025. I wrote a little recap on my website. Most of the pages on this wiki that deal with self-hosting are no longer maintained.

Hardware and OS

Mac Mini (an old page for previous hardware is Hardware considerations)
Operating system; see the Debian page for details about working with the OS of my choice

Security topics

Securing the box
Service encryption with SSL (see also CAcert and OpenSSL)
fail2ban
SASL authentication

Core system

Debian package management
Basic system configuration
Bootloader (currently Grub)
systemd (init system)
Managing the Linux kernel (old pages are KernelConfiguration for building custom kernels, and a list of custom kernels I built)
Disk maintenance (how to organize a hard disk and deal with problems)
Network configuration (including details about ADSL and WiFi router configuration)
- Service Provider SolNet
- Service Provider AIK (historical details)
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
NSS (Name Service Switch)

Core services (services which are used by other intranet systems/services)

Service syslog
Service LDAP (currently OpenLDAP)
Service DHCP (currently ISC DHCP)
Service DNS (currently BIND9)
Service Database
- Service default (currently MySQL)
- Service fallback (currently PostgreSQL, for anything else that does not work with the default)
Service SMTP / Mail Transport Agent (currently exim)
Service HTTP / Web (currently apache2)

Email related

Spam filter (currently SpamAssassin)
Virus scanner (currently nothing, possible amavis, ClamAV)
Service IMAP (currently Dovecot, previously Courier)
Webmail (currently Roundcube, previously SquirrelMail)

Web related

Wiki (currently Mediawiki)
CMS (currently Drupal)
WebDAV
Web site maintenance

Other system administration

X11 configuration
Backup solution (a combination of tools, see the pages in the Backup category)
System monitoring (currently Zabbix, previously Nagios)
System statistics (currently collectd)
NTP

Developer services

Subversion
Git
Bugtracker (currently Bugzilla)
QuincyKit (crash reporting service for iOS apps)

Other services

Service SSH (currently OpenSSH)
File server
- Default file server (currently Samba)
- Alternative file server (currently NFS, for any cases that do not work well with Samba)
rsync
CalDAV and CardDAV (currently DAViCal)

Disabled/removed services