Basic SSH server configuration how-to http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/16/1.php
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Installation and Configuration of Pure-FTPD http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/4/1.php
You can purchase cPanel from cPanel themselves which would cost you more or you can select to purchase cPanel/WHM from one of their licensed distributors:
http://www.cpanel.net/dist.cgi
Ok, so now you have your cPanel license and the license is bound to your server ip address YAY. Ok so this is what you do next
Login to the root account of your server then download cPanel thus:
# sh |wget
http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
the # being your root commandline prompt of course.
don't want to do it that way. kewl.
# wget
http://layer1.cpanel.net/cpanel-universal-install.sea
# sh cpanel-universal-install.sea
There you go, now you can be a webhost! lol
more help http://www.cpanel.net/docs/whm/