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Hi,
> Thank you for you help with choosing a domain registrar. I went with
> Gandi I'm the end and they seem great.
>
> I've bought my first domains and I'm just about to begin configuring
> services on my VPS. This is the first time I've run a server facing the
> public internet.
Good work! It's great that you're jumping in the deep end.
> I'd really appreciate any guidance on the best way to set up the
> following so that it's competent, reliable and doesn't get pwned. I want
> to be a good net citizen.
I'd recommend Olaf Kirch's "Network Administrator's Guide"
http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Network-Administrators-Guide-Kirch/dp/1565920872
http://oreilly.com/openbook/linag2/book/index.html
It's almost positively ancient: the first few chapters are especially
dated but it'll give you a really, really solid grounding in very
general network admin concepts. It'll allow you to get some idea about
the things you don't know you don't know. It'll enable you to know the
correct questions to ask.
> *BIND
> *Incoming mail
> *A POP3/IMAP server for my client.
> *An SMTP server for my client to send to.
> *Webmail for on-the-road access to my mail. (my existing provider uses
> Open.Exchange and I like it but 
