Starting Poiint

I am totally new to hosting websites on IIS and I would really like to get a
starting point
a book or something. Anything you can suggest. I am not looking for someone
to give
me ready made solutions, just a starting point.
I come from a background where (I work for an ISP) we had all out sites
hosted
on Cobalt Servers. Now I must manage / administer an Windows 2003 Web
Edition
server, to host multiple customers web sites on. I have trouble dealing with
the FTP
i cannot seem to force the user to stay in one directory, or how do I set
the max quota he
can use.

Could you please point me to a startng point I can read and leard how to do
these tasks ?

Thanx in advance
Michael

Kristofer
Tue Feb 22 10:39:05 CST 2005

Hi,

The book IIS 6.0 Administration (ISBN 0072194855) is quite good.

For security, you might want to read CYA Securing IIS 6.0 (ISBN 1931836256)
Also check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/webhosting/default.asp

and download "Shared Hosting Deployment Guide" (you need to register using
PassPort, but it is free).

And of course, you have the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=80a1b6e6-829e-49b7-8c02-333d9c148e69&displaylang=en

Good Luck!

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
www.ilopia.com


Michael Poirazi wrote:

> I am totally new to hosting websites on IIS and I would really like to
get a
> starting point
> a book or something. Anything you can suggest. I am not looking for
someone
> to give
> me ready made solutions, just a starting point.
> I come from a background where (I work for an ISP) we had all out sites
> hosted
> on Cobalt Servers. Now I must manage / administer an Windows 2003 Web
> Edition
> server, to host multiple customers web sites on. I have trouble dealing
with
> the FTP
> i cannot seem to force the user to stay in one directory, or how do I set
> the max quota he
> can use.
>
> Could you please point me to a startng point I can read and leard how to
do
> these tasks ?
>
> Thanx in advance
> Michael

Kristofer
Tue Feb 22 10:46:53 CST 2005

For your FTP question, you should look into FTP user isolation:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/iis/6/all/proddocs/en-us/wsa_ftp_isolate.mspx

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555018

For quota, you need to use Disk Quotas (there is nothing special about
quotas when FTP is involved). There may however by third-party products
that works different.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/sag_DQintro.asp

Good Luck!

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
www.ilopia.com


Michael Poirazi wrote:

> I am totally new to hosting websites on IIS and I would really like to
get a
> starting point
> a book or something. Anything you can suggest. I am not looking for
someone
> to give
> me ready made solutions, just a starting point.
> I come from a background where (I work for an ISP) we had all out sites
> hosted
> on Cobalt Servers. Now I must manage / administer an Windows 2003 Web
> Edition
> server, to host multiple customers web sites on. I have trouble dealing
with
> the FTP
> i cannot seem to force the user to stay in one directory, or how do I set
> the max quota he
> can use.
>
> Could you please point me to a startng point I can read and leard how to
do
> these tasks ?
>
> Thanx in advance
> Michael

Michael
Wed Feb 23 05:24:21 CST 2005

Thank you so much for your help. I am already studing the various
guides / info / tools and they are extremely helpfull. Thank you so
much.

Michael
DSP Netway LTD


Kristofer Gafvert wrote:

> For your FTP question, you should look into FTP user isolation:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/iis/6/all/proddocs/en
> -us/wsa_ftp_isolate.mspx
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555018
>
> For quota, you need to use Disk Quotas (there is nothing special
> about quotas when FTP is involved). There may however by third-party
> products that works different.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/stan
> dard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsSe
> rv/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/sag_DQintro.asp
>
> Good Luck!