Do I need cPanel like software for my Production Server?
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- Plan what kind of services you need.
- Read through some tutorials; how to set up X on [your Linux distribution].
- Do the configuration with the modifications you need.
- Come back to Serverfault when you have a problem despite following the tutorial and reading the manual.