My name is Richard Valk and I’ve started this site to give all the “ISP in a box” information from my other blog/site a better place to hide.

The information on this site represents what I’ve done myself and how I installed my own server which I use to host websites and email accounts for family and friends. I have an ADSL broadband connection with 3Mb down, 1 Mb upload speed and everything is running on a Mac mini G4 1.5 Ghz with 1 MB of memory.

The documentation is the result of a lot of Googling and late night experiments with my Mac. I’m no expert on any off the stuff you find here. I just wrote down my findings that made it work for me. I do learn some of the stuff by doing it all myself and by helping out others in solving the problems they encounter with installing the software. I try to write down why some choices where made and why and try to explain possible alternatives. I don’t want you to expect that I have all the answers, but I do find a workable solution for people who run into problems.

If you have a question or a problem, please use the forum for that. It is a better places for discussions than comments on a blogpost. If you find an error in the documentation you’re free to leave a comment.

If you like what you found and it was really useful to you I would appreciate it if you would donate a small amount to cover my expenses, thanks.

All the documents are free to use, under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Which means you can use the work, copy it, change it as long as you mention or link to my website or name my name in your work. Legal stuff here.

Comments that are no longer relevant to the section that they were posted will be deleted. This as the documentation will change and the comment might refer to errors or different instructions that are no longer there. Spam and offensive comments will be deleted as well!