No pain no gain

PureFTPD is a secure and easy to configure FTP server. It has all the features you usually need, like TLS encryption, virtual users, quotas and limits. The only downside is that PureFTPD is not easy to install on a virtual server because the default Debian package is compiled with some options that are not supported by the standard OpenVZ and Virtuozzo kernels. Therefore you need to recompile PureFTPD with some reasonable settings. In This post I will explain how to do that and do a basic service setup.

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The long term support edition 8.04 of Ubuntu Linux will provide security updates until 2013. Therefore it is an ideal distribution for building the base of a secure hosting solution. In this article I will describe how you can setup the virtualization software OpenVZ on Ubuntu 8.04. OpenVZ allows you to run multiple virtual Linux servers on top of your Ubuntu system. It is extremely performant and OpenVZ is also the base of the well known Virtuozzo solution which is widely used in the web hosting market. Compared to Xen, OpenVZ is more limited in regards to different operating system you can run, but on the other hand it has a lower overhead and is therefore more performant. It is also possible to run OpenVZ inside of VirtualBox which is not possible with Xen.

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