so… I am an old geek and used debian for years, i used other VPS services, DH is new to me as of today - just got my DH vps set up, and I see there is a lot of dream host specific packages installed…
I already turned off so that dreamhost panel doesnt manage anything, from the panel. Now when on the host, I would like to gut and remove all the dreamhost specific packages and just install standard debian ones, like apache and php…
I am not going to have a heavily loaded server or anything - I did see the notes about using the available mysql-servers rather than installing my own, that is fine with me, but other than that, is there any compelling reasons for me to not dpkg --purge all the ndn/dh packages, change sources.list and get the system on a standard debian base?
the DH wiki has little to no info on vps - perhaps there is some info somewhere on minimal backdoors that DH needs and whatnot (I find it interresting they need a custom rsync package for instance).
here is the list of packages I found with some grepping of dpkg -l
I can see how ndn-vserver is probably something to keep around…
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ii ndn-analog 1.1-36.20 helper stats scripts
ii ndn-apache-helper 1.0-14 just some extra stuff for apache
ii ndn-apache22 2.2.22-14 Dreamhost Apache 2.2 package
ii ndn-apache22-modcband 0.9.7.5-7 mod_cband for apache2.2
ii ndn-apache22-modcloudflare 1.02-1 <insert up to 60 chars description>
ii ndn-apache22-modfastcgi 2.4.6-4.2 mod_fastcgi, FastCGI for apache 2.2
ii ndn-apache22-modfcgid 2.3.6-2 apache 2.2 mod_cgids
ii ndn-apache22-modlimitipconn 0.23-1 mod_limitipconn apache2.2 module
ii ndn-apache22-modpagespeed 0.10.22.6-r1798 Apache 2 module to optimize web content.
ii ndn-apache22-modsecurity2 2.6.6-3 mod_security2 package for apache 2.2
ii ndn-apache22-modxsendfile 0.12-1 xsendfile module for apache22
ii ndn-apache22-php5 5.2.17-3 php5 mod_php for apache22
ii ndn-apache22-svn 1.6.12-2 Subversion server modules for Apache
ii ndn-autoupdate 1.0-18 Auto-update packages from a DreamHost profile
ii ndn-crontab 1.0-6.2 crontab wrapper script for enforcing MAILTO variables
ii ndn-daemontools 0.76-12.2 ndn install of daemontools
ii ndn-darwinss 5.5.5-2.4 Darwin Streaming Server for DreamHost
ii ndn-dh-base 1.1.0-18.30 DH base package
ii ndn-dh-web-missing 1.0.0-7.2 <insert up to 60 chars description>
ii ndn-dh-web-parking 1.0.0-8.4 DreamHost parking page
ii ndn-dh-web-phpmyadmin 3.3.10.4-2 Handles the administration of one or more MySQL servers over the web. Written in PHP.
ii ndn-java 1.6.0.07-3 java jdk and jre
ii ndn-keyring 1.0-20091206 Signing keys for NDN packages.
ii ndn-lighttpd 1.4.28-3 Lighttpd
ii ndn-mailcerts 1.0-11.3 <imapd.pem and pop3.pem>
ii ndn-misc 2.0-6 misc ndn scripts and stuff
ii ndn-miva 5.07+ssl-2 miva empressa software
ii ndn-netsaint-nrpe 2.0-9.2 netsaint plugins and nrpe stuff
ii ndn-netsaint-plugins 1.4.14-31 netsaint nrpe plugins
ii ndn-nginx 0.8.53.passenger300-6 HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev
ii ndn-passenger 3.0.17-5 Phusion Passenger (mod_rails)
ii ndn-php4-compat 1.0-4 php4 compatibility links
ii ndn-php5-cgi 5.2.17-8 php5 cgi interpreter
ii ndn-php5-mongo 1.0.2-2 mongo PHP module
ii ndn-php5-xcache 1.2.2-5 xcache for php5
ii ndn-php53 5.3.13-1.1 PHP 5.3 interpreters
ii ndn-php53-mongo 1.1.3-2 Mongo for PHP 5.3
ii ndn-php53-suhosin 0.9.32-2 Suhosin for PHP 5.3
ii ndn-safetynet 1.15-17.2 <insert up to 60 chars description>
ii ndn-vserver 1.0-2.2 vserver meta package
ii ndn-whois-helper 0.1-1 <insert up to 60 chars description>
ii rsync 3.0.9-2 Dreamhost port of 3.0.9