Linux Distributions

Linux, unlike other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS, is not controlled by a single organisation - it is actually a collection of the "Linux Kernel", a variety of utilities and libraries from the GNU operating system and collection of other programs/applications. These are then "packaged together" and distributed/sold by various companies such as RedHat (under their RedHat Enterprise commerical brand or via their free Fedora or Centos brands), Debian (which then 'sub-packaged' to produce the popular Ubuntu collection), Yellow Dog, Slackware and many others.

Beebware has experience of working on Debian, Fedora, RedHat and Centos based systems - however, since the majority of Linux distributions are quite similar we are reasonably comfortable supporting other distributions as well.

Linux server administration

We have experience in installing, managing/administrating and support over 30 Linux based servers at a time - each hosting between 5 and 5,000 internet websites! We can help you administer and support your collection of Linux servers - whether they are web servers (running Apache), mail servers (running Exim, Courier, Cyrus IMAP, Dovecot, qmail or Sendmail) with and without anti-spam capabilities (such as SpamAssassin, Vipul's Razor and MailScanner), web hosting servers (running cPanel, Ensim, Webmin or Plesk) or just a file server running Samba or NFS.

Featured Project: Pay By SMS Web Hosting

Utilising a third party SOAP XML based Text messaging system, this PHP driven website allowed customers to place an order online and then pay for their internet web hosting using SMS technology. The system assigned each customer a unique 6 character code which had to be "texted" in to the third party gateway which then notified the system.

The system then sent out two "reverse billed premium rate" text messages to the customer who then had to enter them on the website - upon which the system will automatically create their cPanel web hosting account and enter their details in the WHMAutopilot billing system.

The system would automatically send out renewal notification emails to the customer and, if their account was not renewed, it would automatically suspend their account upon non-payment.