I am looking for assistance / advice on building a web / file server. I have been playing with FreeBSD 8.2 and 9. I am willing to go either way so long as there will be a way to keep the system stable when going from 9 RC3 to the final release. I will let the pro’s here lead me down the right path.
The server has a mirror raid1 with 74G SCSI drives and 4 GB of RAM. The data drive for the web / file server will be a SATA 1T drive. The web server / file server drive will be a 1T drive. The network is two 1 Gbit network cards (em0 and em1).
I would also like to have the server be the LAN / WAN firewall. I have been using pfSense on a separate box but would like to consolidate to one box yet the pfSense forums inform me that there is no package install for what I would like to do.
My problem is that once I install the basic FreeBSD (8 or 9), I do not know what order to install the needed packages. Or a doc that explains the order because I cannot locate one.
Firewall, dynamic IP (zoneedit), dns, dhcp, php5, mysql, etc…
Thanks for the time.
The server has a mirror raid1 with 74G SCSI drives and 4 GB of RAM. The data drive for the web / file server will be a SATA 1T drive. The web server / file server drive will be a 1T drive. The network is two 1 Gbit network cards (em0 and em1).
I would also like to have the server be the LAN / WAN firewall. I have been using pfSense on a separate box but would like to consolidate to one box yet the pfSense forums inform me that there is no package install for what I would like to do.
My problem is that once I install the basic FreeBSD (8 or 9), I do not know what order to install the needed packages. Or a doc that explains the order because I cannot locate one.
Firewall, dynamic IP (zoneedit), dns, dhcp, php5, mysql, etc…
Thanks for the time.