====== Net5 Solaris Zone Hosting ======
While Net5 Solaris Zone Hosting provides you with flexible and powerful hosting, the nature of this service means that you need some knowledge of Solaris and the other software packages. We provide a number of short guides here that will help you get started. If you're already familiar with Linux, you'll find quite a number of similarities. 

You zone is powered by a Sun Fire T1000 CoolThreads server. Each T1 CPU contains 6 or 8 cores, but which are capable of executing up to 32 threads simultaneously. Solaris allows you to have guaranteed access to minimum CPU and memory resources, so that other zones will never interfere with your own. Plus, it allows your zone to use any free resources that might not be utilized by other zones. 

Your zone is just like having a root account on a bare-metal Solaris system --- you can install the software you want, configure them the way you need, but still be protected by a range of security measures we run on the system, and without the costs of a whole server. You'll also get a dedicated IP address direct to your zone, and a range of other great features.
 


===== Getting Started with Solaris =====
Our Getting Started guides will help you get up and running fast. Perfect for those who don't have any UNIX experience, or those who have worked with Linux before, since there are some subtle differences between the two. 

  * [[zones:Solaris101]]: Learn how to login to your zone and perform some basic commands.
  * [[zones:CheatSheat]]: Commonly-used commands for common tasks

===== Doing Stuff with Solaris =====
Like anything else, there's many ways you can do the same thing. This is no different when it comes to getting your Zone working. We give you a blank canvas, and you're entirely free to do whatever you like with it! For those who want to build up a working environment from scratch, you're free to grab your favorite text editor and compiler and get to work. 

For those who aren't quite as fluent at system administration, there's an alternative option. We highly recommend the use of a system known as [[http://www.webmin.com/|Webmin]]. It's a web-based control panel that allows you to install and configure the most common software for your website, email, DNS settings and more. 

The following guides will help you get up and running with webmin. 

  * [[zones:webmin|Webmin]]: Installing and running Webmin
  * [[zones:dns|DNS]]: Configuring your DNS serverice
  * [[zones:Apache]]: Configure the Apache Server for your account
  * [[zones:Rails]]: Ruby on Rails is easy on Net5 Solaris Zones -- this guide shows you how
  * [[zones:Email]]: Run your own email server