Recent content by frostfiretulsa

Hiya all, I am brand new to VMWare... I just installed Esxi 5 on a small test server and am attempting to create 2 VMs - one with Windows 2008 to act as a Backup (storage) server, the other with Snort or pfsense to act as a firewall for my network. The server hardware is: 1U Pentium 4...

It was in a local VM (Virtual PC), and the image was pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso. And yes, they will give me firewall pricing... but I do want to at least play with this idea of using the backup server. Its always galled me that I had a perfectly powerful server just sitting there doing...

btw, as I said I am not a VMware guru - I use Parallels for the most part... What VMWare product would be best for this? I know nothing about their server/datacenter line... would Workstation work for what I want to do?

You know, its funny... I asked them just that same question... and they gave a pretty good answer. They said even if its a 1U dell server, if its only function is that of a firewall, I would get firewall pricing - which is a good policy in my book. Very fair. Problem is the server I am...

RAM is no problem really - its cheap, especially on that box. As to being more secure - of course it will be. Currently there are about 2-4 attempts per IP to log in to SQL Server with SA getting thru to the server before I block the traffic. The reason for that is the first attempt has to...

I admit I am new to the whole network security thing... but something just seems.... wrong? about running such a critical app in a VM. What happens if the VM crashes? All access to all my servers would be lost. The likelihood of a dedicated pfSense server crashing would be low I believe -...

I can install anything I need/want on that server... tho it only has 4GB of RAM, and windows 2008 R2 is a RAM hog... so if things would work without windows in the mix I think performance would be much better. Since pfSense has a customized version of FreeBSD, then I guess I need to know if...

Ok, Lets punch this up a notch real fast. I have a idea, which may or may not work. My VPS software is Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Windows - and I run it on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise. I currently have 5 VPS servers each hosting 71 VPS containers (355 containers total). Now...

To be honest I never looked at what my servers are doing so far as bandwidth. I can say that even the busiest of them use only about 2TB per month, so figure about 20TB per month max across the whole rack - and that is very generous. Many of my servers do not even use 100MB/mo. I think I...

Aye, I know that... but it seems thats not their game for the time being. More than likely they did a port scan and found a listening (and unsecured) SQL Server and posted my IP to a forum or something for hackers. Just a guess, but likely a good one. Same goes for the DNS server. There are...

Ok, If I am reading this right, I need to run that on a server... so I assume it would be something like one NIC would connect to the datacenters Vlan, and the other NIC would go out to a switch to connect the servers to it... yes? The only problem I have with that is it would cost a LOT...

I have considered this... and I do not think so. About having legitimate clients from China that is. I only host about 50 websites, and of them the biggest are US only service companies - with "local" websites to their cities - very regional. My largest endeavor is my VPS company, but I lease to...

Ya, I already found the list of IPs for China... and I could easily import them to the software firewall, but figure a hardware firewall is a better option now considering my size. It wasnt necessary before... but I am starting to grow faster. Will have at least 3 new servers in the next year...

Hiya all, This is my first post on this forum... glad I found it tho - seems to be really good for people like me. I own a small web/VPS hosting company that currently provides service to about 500 clients, the majority of which are in the USA and EU. I have been in business for about 12...