RE: [cobalt-users] New raq questions!

["Neil J. Kemp" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>1. My provider has given me ONE IP...do you recommend
>me putting all my sites on this one ip? or putting
>each new user on their own IP?

That's upto you really. In an ideal world I think we'd all have seperate
IP's for each site, but to be honest the RaQ2 works fine with IP's shared
between sites. You can always change them later anyway.

>2. If you dont think its a good idea, then they have
>IP's they can give me. If i go about the each ip, each
>user, then is there something i have to do differently
>then just add from the GUI?

With the RaQ2 you just set the IP's etc as normal through the control panel.
Nothing special. Any hardware configuration to get the IP's to your box I'd
hope you provider would do.

>3. How do i register my HOST DNS servers with
>InterNIC? When it asks for the IP address, do i give
>InterNIC the IP that my host gave me? How do i setup
>the primary and secondary servers on my server?

You only need to register this if you're going to run your own DNS. If you
are there goto http://www.networksolutions.com/ and follow the forms for
registering a host. PS Generally you should have TWO nameservers. One server
for primary, one for secondry. Some people do run both on the same machine,
but that kinda defeats the idea so it's not recommended unless you really
have to. As for setting up sites, go into the "admin" control panel (that's
server admin, not siteadmin) and under one of the options you'll find
somewhere to modify DNS records.

>4. I need to learn Red Hat Linux!
Try http://www.cheapbytes.com/ purchase Cheapbytes Redhat 6.1 (even though
the RaQ2 is based on 5.x) for about $1.99, install it on an Intel machine
and BREAK it. ;-) It might sound a bit strange, but I think most people will
agree with me that the best way to learn something is to play with it, break
it and learn how to fix it. ;-)

>Thanks again

I just hope that helped and welcome to the RaQ2 owners club! (Hmm that
sounds kinda snappy?) ;-)

--Neil