Installing a Minimal Centos 6.0 Apache/MySQL/PHP Server
Assumes Centos 6.0 i386
Install minimal server
yum update
take snapshot
yum install gpg
rpm -Uhv http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uhv http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/6/i386/ius-release-1.0-8.ius.el6.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uhv http://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-release/percona-release-0.0-1.i386.rpm
yum install Percona-Server-server-55 Percona-Server-shared-55 Percona-Server-client-55 Percona-Server-shared-compat xtrabackup maatkit
vim /etc/my.cnf
service mysql start
chkconfig mysql on
yum install php53u php53u-eaccelerator php53u-gd php53u-mysql php53u-pear php53u-pdo php53u-pecl-xdebug
yum install rdiff-backup rsync
vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
service httpd start
chkconfig httpd on
vim /etc/sysconfig/iptables
wget http://day32.com/MySQL/tuning-primer.sh
Follow http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf
Configuring, optimisation and backups are your problem.
