HowtoForge have published a very thorough guide to setting up Ubuntu 5.04 in an ISP environment. It covers basic server installation, and major ISP services such as web, mail, DNS, FTP, databases, quotas, secure authentication, firewalling and hosting management. Meanwhile, check out Edd Dumbill’s LDAP-tastic step-by-step guide to LDAP authentication and management for UNIX and Samba users on Ubuntu systems. Craving more juicy server sweetness? Ubuntu quenches your thirst!
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