Purpose:

The purpose of this page is to list and document done on setting up servers. What kind of servers well to begin with Python/Django Servers. To begin with working with cloud servers moving then to more proprietary servers. 

Task/Resource

Server Creation - Varies depending on PAAS

Security

Securing a Linux Server - http://spenserj.com/blog/2013/07/15/securing-a-linux-server/

Security/Generating SSH Keys -  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSH_keys#Generating_an_SSH_key_pair

Security/Copying public key to server - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSH_keys#Copying_the_public_key_to_the_remote_server

Security/Disabling Password logons - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSH_keys#Disabling_password_logins

Securing OPENSSH - http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-b726dd17be7e9657f8cae037c6ea70c1a032ca1f

Centos Administration

CentOS Linux is a community-supported distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). As such, CentOS Linux aims to be functionally compatible with RHEL. 

Intial Server Setup with CENTOS 7 - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-centos-7

Site - http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPage

Full Stack Python -

Good overall resource about the whole python stack implementaion

site - http://www.fullstackpython.com/ 

TESTING

Load Testing - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/load-testing-with-apache-jmeter

Tracking Statistics on Servers - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/introduction-to-tracking-statistics-on-servers

SSH Keys

Generating keys

Adding to ssh-agent on Mac OSX

Start ssh-agent on Mac OSX

$ eval "$(ssh-agent)"

Add key to agent on Mac OSX

$ ssh-add path/to/key