The ideal setup would have a firewall located between the machines and router. If you lock down the ports on the machine and just use it as a dumb server you should be alright. The firewall comes in handy for blocking IP spoofing and if your doing packet filtering for web (port 80) vunerabilities.
Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:00 AM Subject: RE: Web Server location > That's a good idea. Would a "good" configuration be behind a firewall > anyway? I'm wondering how hosting companies do this. > > Mark > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:35 AM > To: CF-Server > Subject: Re: Web Server location > > > Try taking the firewall down and testing. Even though your firewall is > probably configured correctly it can slow down a single T1 greatly. > Instead > of a firewall you can just lock down the ports on the machine and > multihone > it if it needs domain access. > > Steve > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Server" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:28 AM > Subject: Web Server location > > > > Good Morning All, > > > > I've got a couple odd problems and I'm all out of ideas as to where > the > > problem might lay. > > > > Set-up: Win2K, IIS 5, 1/2 gig RAM, 60 gig HD, CF5, PIII 800Mhz - The > Web > > Server is connected by a full T-1 to the Internet and is physically > > located behind a Cisco Rounter and a Firewall > > > > Traffic: Maybe 100 people per day. The app is a medium sized Extranet. > > The Extranet is used for viewing documents (text, html and pdf's) Very > > simple stuff. We do use session variables, but all are locked > > appropriately. We use SQL Server 2000 which is located on a DB Server, > > not the Web Server. About 98% of the queries are stored procedures. > > > > Problem: Clients complain that the Extranet is slow. We, of course, > > don't see this problem when viewing internally since we're connected > to > > the Web Server through a full T-3. I also experience lag when viewing > > the Extranet from home (I have IDSL 144K). One thing, in particular, > > that I notice is that the blue status bar (when using IE) seems to > hang > > for about 2-3 seconds after the page has loaded. It doesn't matter > what > > page I'm viewing either. For example - I view a page with a lot of > > content and then view a page with just a login form on it and the blue > > status bar still hangs for the 2-3 seconds no matter what page I'm > > viewing. Also, I keep receiving NT error 232 in the Web Server logs > and > > I can't seem to figure out where they're coming from. > > > > Are there any settings in either IIS or CF Admin that I should be > paying > > attention to? As for the 232 error - What should I look at to fix > this. > > > > These problems are very frustrating because the powers that be here > tend > > to point their fingers at Windows, IIS and CF as the problem. I don't > > feel that those things are the problem. If anything, they're not > set-up > > properly. > > > > Thanks in advance for all your help. > > > > Mark Stewart > > Programmer/Analyst > > CC3 > > Phone: 215.672.6900 x1332 > > http://www.cc3.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body or visit the list page at www.houseoffusion.com
