>> fine except for remote administration - how can one with ease
>> connect to a host on a private network from a remote location.
>
> In that case, maybe you shouldn't be able to remotely administer your
> database server. In any case, your database server should not arbitrarily
> accept connections from anywhere in the world, and it really shouldn't be
> accessible at all from a public network. It should only accept connections
> from the web server, or from trusted internal sources. If you absolutely
> need remote administration, you could administer it from the web server, I
> suppose, although that has its own obvious problems.
>
That might work for a single company's site, but hosting companies can't do that. You
have to give your clients some kind of remote access to manage their databases. Are
there any techniques/suggestions for allowing remote access to SQL server via the
internet? Obviously changing the port is one small step but are there others people are
using?
Tom Nunamaker
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