Welcome back, this will be the 3^rd part of new server series. In the previous parts I assembled the server and prepared the machine with Ubuntu Server. I configured the basics things like; networking, RAID setup, E-Mail and more. In case you missed that: read Part I and Part II.

Today, we will finish the job with installing and configuring all the services we love so much. Again, I included a Table of Contents for convenience reasons, since it quite a long article. But hopefully the table will help you to navigate around.

Happy new year everyone! 😎 Let’s install Ubuntu Server 20.04 as part of the blog series. And continue with setting-up the software part of the server. If you missed Part I, read that first.

My current server is 15 years old, and time for an upgrade! Finally! After all, adding additional memory is not good enough and we hitting the limits of the old hardware. We will replace the whole server from the ground-up.

I was searching for a good and free TLS certificate which is signed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA). A CA is an organization for issuing digital certificates. You need to have a Certificate Authority when you want to use HTTPS, secure HTTP web server connections. You know; when you visit a secure web-page (https://) and you will see a green lock-icon in your web-browser. This icon indicates that you have an encrypted connection with this website.

In this article I will explain how TLS certification requests normally works and how Let’s Encrypt works. Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority, who provides free and trusted domain certificates. Eventually, I explain how to setup Let’s Encrypt yourself using Nginx webserver.

Niet lang geleden heb ik mijn server opnieuw opgezet. Ik maak gebruik van Debian 8 (Jessie) als Linux distributie, en heb veel verschillende services geïnstalleerd en geconfigureerd (waaronder een mail server, webmail, cloud storage en git). Gelukkig hield ik alles netjes bij in een logboek. Ik zou graag mijn stappen willen delen, zodat iedereen een eigen server kan opzetten.

Ik ga ervan uit dat je beschikt over enige basis kennis van GNU/Linux (Debian). Ook al beschik je niet tot nauwelijks over deze kennis, zou het toch mogelijk moeten zijn om deze handleiding stap voor stap te volgen.