New Server, W00T

Alright, so I just got settled in my new condo, had Comcast come out and setup my internet and TV and my server has been live now again for about 16 hours....14 hours into it I managed to bork it up, however. I was messing around with my user groups and accidentally removed myself from the "admin" and "adm" groups which allow my user to use the "sudo" command to execute programs and commands with root privileges...So, right now, the web server is still up and running (no domain name yet, working on it) but until I can get back to my condo to reboot into the recover root console, I won't be able to fix my group settings so I've been locked out of it now for about 2 hours and will remain that way for the next hour, until I can get home. I also got webmin installed on the server, but forgot to set the router to forward the proper port to the server for it, so even though it's installed it's useless until I can get home and set that on the router (I don't have remote administration on the router setup for security reasons).

But bad news aside, I'm really excited for this project. I will be documenting my progress as it goes along, but the basic plan is to make a big combination server that will be a prototype for the beefier server I'm planning for later this year. Right now the mightly PIII processor it's running on currently will be a standard LAMP (Linux Apache2 MySQL PHP5) server with Webmin, web administration and Samba installed as well as FTPd, OpenSSH and Postfix. My hope with all this is mostly just for educational purposes so that once I have the beefier hardware I can set this up in a virtual server environment so that each of these services will be on their own virtual server instead of all running on the same computer and then I'll probably keep it that way as long as I can partly for the educational experience it will provide, but I'm also planning to make it a fully functional personal FTP and Mail server for myself and my roommate, so we will see how it goes, I'll keep the updates rolling.