What Kind Of Server Would be Most Beneficial?

[MadHatter]

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to hear from some more experienced users about making a server. I have a nice desktop that could be adapted to any proxy, ssh, web hosting server needed, but i wanted to make a server that I could use for most of the episodes of hak5. I was thinking just a plain ssh server but was unsure.

Thanks,

MadHatter21

[VaKo]

Build a hypervisor.

[Ingo]

Ofc there might be something that I don't know about but.... couldn't you just do them all? I mean slap Apache and PHP5 there, then slap SSH services on top of that and for proxies you can use either SSH or make PHPProxy on your webserver.

[VaKo]

SSH is part of most *nix installs out the box, not really sure what you mean by an SSH server other than installing something and leaving it at that.

[Ingo]

But as you must be aware there are other operating systems than "*nix" based and even if MadHatter was going to use such my post should be pretty valid

[VaKo]

True, but with *nix SSH is a given, with Windows there are better things. As good as Apache is, I wouldn't touch it on a Windows box, IIS is much better.

[Ingo]

Well, I have very limited experiences with IIS, did install it once for school project, but didn't really get into it all that much, but I respect your opinion withdraw my comment :)