HowTo Forge: Getting the most out of your Webserver

By Jason Ashdown

I’ve always enjoyed tweaking my Web Servers, trying to get the most out of them, but sometimes it can be very tedious and frustrating… long, late hours of troubleshooting problems. Enter HowTo Forge!

HowTo Forge is website that provides pre-compiled virtual images of (pretty much) every UNIX platform already configured for you.

It also has tutorials on how to do the tweaks yourself with download links to the complete image. It’s really cool if you’re not a Unix guru as they are designed to be secure and efficient with minimal setup knowledge.

Personally I like using Debian for my web servers, but they do have The Perfect Server Setup for Ubuntu with the latest build of Ubuntu 8.10.

They also have The Perfect Desktop Setup for Ubuntu (no image) with step by step instructions and screenshots.

I love reading the useful tips within the tutorials, absorbing the information on how to configure the best web server setups while expanding my knowledge of Unix.