Introduction

Alpine is well suited for hosting email, web or other network services.
Your biggest task is to figure out what you want your system to do.

Preparing Alpine

First you need to get alpine up and running.
Follow the Installation instructions on how to get your Alpine booted.

If nothing else is mentioned in the below instructions, you should use the latest stable release:

Download Stable Version
Alpine 3.21.0

Mail

We split the 'Mail' section into various tasks.
One task is to gather and process mail. Some other task would be to prevent spam and virus etc.
Finally we need to make sure the user can fetch/read his mail.

Receive mail

Setting up postfix with virtual domains | Postfix can be configured in multiple ways - Here we do it with virtual domains

Processing mail - Virus protection

Setting up ClamAV for Postfix | Refers to Setting_up_postfix_with_virtual_domains instructions

Processing mail - Spam protection

Setting up Gross for Postfix | Refers to Setting up postfix with virtual domains instructions
Setting up ClamSMTP | Use ClamSMTP to provide advanced content and virus filtering for spam
Setting up SaneSecurity & MSRBL extra definitions | Another good way of catching SPAM is Sanesecurity and MSRBL definitions

Delivering mail to the user

Setting up dovecot with imap and tls | Secure way to fetch you mail from the mailer daemon

Web

Setting up trac wiki | A ticket/wiki system
Lighttpd | Lighttpd web server
Apache | Apache web server
Darkhttpd | Darkhttpd web server
Nginx | Nginx web server

SSH

Setting up a SSH server | OpenSSH and Dropbear SSH servers

DNS

Setting up unbound DNS server | A validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver that supports DNSSEC
Setting up nsd DNS server | An authoritative-only DNS server

Proxy

Setting up Explicit Squid Proxy | Configuring an explicit Squid proxy server
Setting up Transparent Squid Proxy | Configuring a transparent Squid proxy server

Also see

You'll probably also want to look at Tutorials and Howtos

Hosting services on Alpine