Welcome to the ISP How-To. I hope you find information that benefits you here.

This information was first compiled in 1998 when I was starting an ISP and could not find the details I needed on the Internet. In 2008 I thought it'd be a good idea to take what I've gathered and share it as a wiki. Perhaps this can become a handy compilation for small ISP entrepreneurs.

Feel free to contribute comments, tips, suggestions, etc.

All content falls under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence, as you will see stated on the bottom of the edit screens. Any use of the works here must reference this site.

If you want to contribute, just create an account. All edits are reported to me and I will do my best to keep spam and other inappropriate content from the site.

No offensive speech is allowed. If you wouldn't say it to your five-year-old niece in front of her father who is the local church pastor as well as your dear sister's husband, then don't write it here.

If you create or translate a page in something other than english, please put it in a subdirectory with a two-character language code. For example, in the server_guides section you translate a page called 'email' into Italian, so the new page should be named server_guides:it:email). Pages can be renamed if you ever forget to do this.

My primary focus is Gentoo Linux with secondary focus on CentOS/RHEL. Feel free to update topics they apply to your favourite distribution.

— Angelo Babudro 2009/09/21 13:35