Any Security Risks With Setting Up Server On Home Network
Jun 28, 2008
Any security risks with setting up server on home network? I would like to set up a computer running linux or xp as a computer on our home network. We have about 3 other computers on the same network.
My network manager says that it would be a security risk to the other computers on the network if I were to have the server running on the network. The server would be connected to a netgear wireless router and I would have ports 80 and 21 opened just for the internal ip address of the server. (for example, the server is on 192.168.0.3, and I had just the two ports open for it, while there were computers on 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.4).
The netgear router has a firewall built into it. Each of the other computers on the network have software firewalls. I would not have a firewall on the server, and I really don't care if someone hacks it. So, what at worst could happen? Would the other computers be at risk?
If you are a professional, I want your opinion also.
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May 28, 2009
I've whitelisted my IP in CSF and CPanel Hulk - but I've been wondering... Is it possible that someone could fake my IP and basically get free access now?
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Apr 16, 2009
I am intending to setup a network as the following:
NOC1:
Cisco/Dlink Managed Router
Firewall with DOSS protection
Server1
Server2
Server3
Backup Data Bank Drive
NOC2:
Cisco/Dlink Managed Router
Firewall with DOSS protection
Server4
Server5
Server6
NOC2 are backup servers. I will need to have whatever in NOC1 to be written to NOC2, i think is call IP mirroring or RAID , not too sure
My [url]is going to have nameserver1/2 to zoneedit. Zoneedit hosts reliable DNS servers. It also support something call failover.
So if NOC1 is down, i will switch to IP to NOC2 IPs.
Now, if i face a DDOS attack, i am suppose to switch to a DDOS attack managment company (with big bandwidth and blocking), is it as simple as switching the [url]to the DDOS attack management company using zoneedit and the company will than link back to my noc1/2 ?
How does it works?
Is the way i setup the network correct?
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So I have designed some software for my brother who owns a business and needed a website to manage his clients and send emails to them and stuff. Right now we are using Hostmonster, which has been pretty good so far.
He was talking to me how it would be nice to be able to email the website and have the site automatically store the information in these emails into a database for information regarding his clients, which I know is possible, but not on a shared host it seems. I have tested my own email receiving script on a test server on my computer and it works fine. So we are continually finding our limits with a shared host. We have been looking into dedicated hosting, but as you all know its quite a price jump to go from $7 a month to $200+.
I got thinking and remembered that my dad has always had a business web plan from our ISP at home (cause he likes fast internet), which according to there website serves 1Mbps upload speed. We also have 2-3 old computers sitting at home that we don't use anymore (2)2ghz pentium 4 Dells and a 3.0ghz+ Pentium 4 HP. I was thinking we could probably just plug one of those into the router, forward some ports and have our own server up and running. For now we would only host this software I made for my bro, which is used by only 4 people, and that's not even at the same time usually. So there is very little load to deal with. But in the future we may put a few other sites that we have in mind which would use PHP and MySQL quite a bit.
I was just curious what some of your opinions were on creating a home server. I was looking at Ubuntu Server edition as a possibility, or XAMPP since all my machines are Windows XP. One machine doesn't work cause the hard drive is out, so if I use that I would probably have to put Ubuntu on it. Any suggestions on good server software would be great! I believe the business web plan my dad has also comes with a static IP as well, so that will help. Look forward to hearing your suggestions!
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I am running windows 7 Ultimate.
I have installed Apache, PHP and MySQL cus they are |33t.
I am using free dns.. the domain name is PowerfulPlacement.com
localhost WORKS
PowerfulPlacement.com does not work... Here is my VirtualHost in my httpd.conf..
NameVirtualHost 72.219.185.53
<VirtualHost 72.219.185.53:80>
ServerName powerfulplacement.com
ServerPath D:/www
DocumentRoot "D:/www/"
<directory D:/www/>
allow from all
</directory>
</VirtualHost>
I dont know why powerfulplacement.com isn't working. I remember in linux I had to start up named or dns or something for it to work but I'm not quit sure with Windows.
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step by step guide on setting up a web server at home
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Note:
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[url]
and the plan is FastAccess 6MB
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