hi,
So I am a developer who is learning django. I have setup a django server on my home server(laptop) to test my code. I ssh into the server and start and stop the server as needed. I also opened up port 80 to allow friends to checkout my web app.
Last weekend I forgot to turn of the server and was gone for the weekend. When I came back I saw there were numerous requests on my server which looked like they were searching for apache/php vulnerabilities. That freaked me out.
So I thought now would be a good time to setup astaro home. I am all about the small form factor/ low power consumption so I try to do everything I can with a laptop rather than desktop. I wanted to buy a cheap atom based laptop to setup astaro home then add either a PCMCIA or USB nic.
After some googling, it seems astaro doesn't recognise either PCMCIA or usb nics.
So now I am faced with 1 of 2 choices:
1) Get a cheap used core 2 duo laptop + either a usb or pcmica nic. Then run linux + astaro in a VM
2) Try something different that has similar functions as Astaro.
Option 1 seems like a kludge that may not work well.
Please keep in mind I am a developer/programmer and I am not really interested in network security so simpler solutions would work better for me. Thus, I was hoping to setup astaro home on a laptop (don't have the space to conveniently put a tower in my small apt).
Thoughts or advice?
Thanks
So I am a developer who is learning django. I have setup a django server on my home server(laptop) to test my code. I ssh into the server and start and stop the server as needed. I also opened up port 80 to allow friends to checkout my web app.
Last weekend I forgot to turn of the server and was gone for the weekend. When I came back I saw there were numerous requests on my server which looked like they were searching for apache/php vulnerabilities. That freaked me out.
So I thought now would be a good time to setup astaro home. I am all about the small form factor/ low power consumption so I try to do everything I can with a laptop rather than desktop. I wanted to buy a cheap atom based laptop to setup astaro home then add either a PCMCIA or USB nic.
After some googling, it seems astaro doesn't recognise either PCMCIA or usb nics.
So now I am faced with 1 of 2 choices:
1) Get a cheap used core 2 duo laptop + either a usb or pcmica nic. Then run linux + astaro in a VM
2) Try something different that has similar functions as Astaro.
Option 1 seems like a kludge that may not work well.
Please keep in mind I am a developer/programmer and I am not really interested in network security so simpler solutions would work better for me. Thus, I was hoping to setup astaro home on a laptop (don't have the space to conveniently put a tower in my small apt).
Thoughts or advice?
Thanks