Best practice for web server setup?

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Hi All,

I am wondering if anyone can point me to a "best practice" guide for setting
up my company web server..

The basics are that I am setting up an Ubuntu 10.04 web server on a VPS
hosted on the internet.. The server will run our internal web based
applications and database being accessible from all our business locations..
It will also at some point in the future host the company website with a
customer portal so customers can manage their requirements themselves (in
other words the site will link to the company database on the server)..

In addition to this I want to setup a development site for continued
development and testing of the applications and website that can then be
copied to the live site when testing is complete..

Setting up the Ubuntu box and using "tasksel" to create the LAMP server is
easy enough.. What I am looking at more specifically is setting up the
virtual hosts for the various sites..

Is it recommended to create user accounts for each function, i.e apps, web
and dev, and then setup a public_html directory in each home directory and
get apache to serve the files from there? or should I just create
subdirectories of /var/www and put them all there to avoid problems running
the sites (permissions etc.. )??

Any suggestions or things to look out for would be appreciated..
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