halBox

Bash script with a bit of unicornian magic dust to set up and tweak your Ubuntu servers.

Nota bene: halBox ships with the harmless EICAR test virus file to assess ClamAV.

As of version 0.40.0, halBox compatibility is reduced to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS only.

Setup

As root, copy+paste the following on your command-line:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 && \
cd ~ && \
wget -q https://github.com/alixaxel/halBox/archive/master.tar.gz -O ~/halBox.tar.gz && \
tar -xzvf ~/halBox.tar.gz && \
chmod +x ~/halBox-master/halBox.sh && \
~/halBox-master/halBox.sh

A default install should take less than 5 minutes to complete.

Memory Usage

halBox is VPS-oriented, it has been crafted to consume as little memory as possible.

Here's what a default install looks like after a fresh reboot (under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS):

root@trusty:~# ps_mem
  Private + Shared    = RAM         Program

 96.0 KiB +  35.0 KiB = 131.0 KiB   lockfile-touch
104.0 KiB +  35.0 KiB = 139.0 KiB   lockfile-create
188.0 KiB +  25.0 KiB = 213.0 KiB   ureadahead
184.0 KiB +  31.5 KiB = 215.5 KiB   atd
172.0 KiB +  65.5 KiB = 237.5 KiB   acpid
192.0 KiB +  50.5 KiB = 242.5 KiB   ondemand
180.0 KiB +  84.0 KiB = 264.0 KiB   sleep (2)
284.0 KiB + 100.0 KiB = 384.0 KiB   cron
288.0 KiB + 142.5 KiB = 430.5 KiB   ping (2)
380.0 KiB +  60.5 KiB = 440.5 KiB   upstart-socket-bridge
364.0 KiB +  97.0 KiB = 461.0 KiB   upstart-udev-bridge
412.0 KiB +  60.0 KiB = 472.0 KiB   upstart-file-bridge
568.0 KiB + 179.5 KiB = 747.5 KiB   systemd-logind
728.0 KiB +  66.0 KiB = 794.0 KiB   dbus-daemon
588.0 KiB + 230.5 KiB = 818.5 KiB   ntpdate (3)
860.0 KiB +  92.5 KiB = 952.5 KiB   systemd-udevd
  1.0 MiB +  79.0 KiB =   1.1 MiB   rsyslogd
952.0 KiB + 339.0 KiB =   1.3 MiB   getty (6)
  1.6 MiB + 146.5 KiB =   1.7 MiB   init
  2.6 MiB + 110.0 KiB =   2.7 MiB   bash
  2.0 MiB + 834.0 KiB =   2.8 MiB   nginx (3)
  2.1 MiB +   1.4 MiB =   3.5 MiB   sshd (2)
  9.3 MiB + 324.5 KiB =   9.6 MiB   mysqld
 12.1 MiB +   7.4 MiB =  19.5 MiB   php5-fpm (3)
---------------------------------
                         48.9 MiB
=================================

Of course, some features and configurations had to be sacrificed, most notably:

• InnoDB engine is disabled if your server has less than 512MB of RAM
• MyISAM key_buffer_size directive is set to 8MB
• non-PDO database drivers are disabled by default (this includes mysql and mysqli)

As of version 0.31.0, halBox also ships with custom rsync LIFO directory utilities:

• rsync_cp
• rsync_mv
• rsync_rm

As of version 0.40.0, halBox comes with three helper scripts for nginx:

• ngxensite (mimics Apache a2ensite)
• ngxdissite (mimics Apache a2dissite)
• ngxgzip (optimal asset pre-compressor for gzip_static)

As of version 0.50.0, halBox ships with Let's Encrypt and:

• ngxsite (deploys a new nginx virtual host with SSL and non-www to www redirection)

Screens (Ubuntu)

These may not (and probably do not) reflect the current version of the script / packages.

Software

ack-grep
apache2-utils
bc
bcrypt
beanstalkd
build-essential
caddy
chkrootkit
clamav
cloc
curl
devd
dexec
dialog
direnv
docker
dstat
errcheck
exim4
git
glances
go
godef
godep
godepgraph
godoc
goimports
gometalinter
gox
goxc
host
htop
httperf
httpie
hub
iftop
imagemagick
innotop
interfacer
ioping
iotop
iptables
jpegoptim
jq
jsonf
julia
lets-encrypt
letsencrypt
libav-tools
maldet
mariadb
mc
memcached
mongodb
mycli
mysql
mysqltuner
nano
ncdu
nginx
ngrok
ngxdissite
ngxensite
ngxgzip
ngxtop
nodejs
ntp
oh-my-zsh
optipng
oracle
pandoc
penv
pgcli
pgloader
pgtop
pgtune
php5
php5-adminer
php5-amqp
php5-apcu
php5-bitset
php5-chdb
php5-composer
php5-curl
php5-discount
php5-doublemetaphone
php5-eio
php5-enchant
php5-ev
php5-fann
php5-gd
php5-gearman
php5-gender
php5-geoip
php5-gmp
php5-gnupg
php5-http
php5-igbinary
php5-imagick
php5-imap
php5-inotify
php5-interbase
php5-intl
php5-jsmin
php5-json
php5-judy
php5-lasso
php5-ldap
php5-leveldb
php5-libevent
php5-librdf
php5-lzf
php5-mailparse
php5-mapscript
php5-mcrypt
php5-memcache
php5-memcached
php5-mogilefs
php5-mongo
php5-msgpack
php5-mssql
php5-mysql
php5-mysqlnd
php5-oauth
php5-odbc
php5-opcache
php5-pgsql
php5-phalcon
php5-phpunit
php5-pinba
php5-protocolbuffers
php5-ps
php5-pspell
php5-quickhash
php5-radius
php5-rar
php5-readline
php5-recode
php5-redis
php5-scream
php5-scrypt
php5-solr
php5-sphinx
php5-spidermonkey
php5-sqlite
php5-ssdeep
php5-ssh2
php5-stats
php5-stem
php5-stomp
php5-sundown
php5-svm
php5-svn
php5-swoole
php5-tidy
php5-timezonedb
php5-tokyo_tyrant
php5-uuid
php5-varnish
php5-xcache
php5-xdebug
php5-xhprof
php5-xmlrpc
php5-xsl
php5-yaf
php5-yaml
php5-yar
php7
php7-composer
php7-curl
php7-gd
php7-imap
php7-interbase
php7-intl
php7-json
php7-ldap
php7-mcrypt
php7-memcached
php7-mysql
php7-odbc
php7-opcache
php7-pgsql
php7-phpunit
php7-pspell
php7-readline
php7-recode
php7-redis
php7-sqlite
php7-tidy
php7-timezonedb
php7-xmlrpc
postgresql
ps_mem
pydf
r
rake
redis-server
rkhunter
rsync
rsync_cp
rsync_mv
rsync_rm
rtorrent
ruby
rust
scout_realtime
scrypt
siege
ssdeep
strace
supervisor
tesseract-ocr
tmux
tuning-primer
units
unzip
vim
virt-what
vmtouch
wkhtmltopdf
yui-compressor
zip
zsh

Credits

This Bash script is inspired by:

• fideloper/Vaprobash
• kr41/bash-booster
• Linode StackScripts
• lowendbox/lowendscript
• perusio/nginx_ensite
• TigersWay/VPS
• Xeoncross/lowendscript

License

MIT