This is the third in a series of posts about getting settled into a server. First we talked about choosing a server, then we talked about installing a base OS on a dedicated server. In this post we'll discuss configuring, securing, and hardening our server. In our last post we left our new server in a very, very minimal state. Heck, we didn't even tell it it's own name! In this post we'll talk about configuration. Throughout this process we're going to try to keep things simple and tightly kn...