Hi Ivan, Thanks for your input, the client is quite paranoid, and will be going with separate farm for website.
Cheers A On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Ivan Wilson <[email protected]>wrote: > Security will be a concern. By having a public site on the same farm as > internal content means you are more at risk of the internal content > becoming accessible externally. With separate farms, you can more easily > isolate the servers.**** > > ** ** > > It is possible to have separate web apps on the same farm that don’t share > any information, however it is also easy to accidently expose information, > particularly through service applications like search.**** > > ** ** > > Having a dedicated farm for a public site is not cheap though, so I think > the decision should be based on the risk of exposing internal data (either > accidently or via hacking). If the consequence of a leak is not serious and > the SharePoint admins can be trusted to configure appropriately, then go > for it.**** > > ** ** > > Picking the right level of paranoia to have regarding security is tough. > Just remember, if you don’t think they are watching you, they are.**** > > ** ** > > Ivan**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Ajay > *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 April 2013 12:29 PM > *To:* ozMOSS > *Subject:* Website and intranet on same farm**** > > ** ** > > Hi Guys,**** > > SharePoint 2013 solution starting with website, later intranet for > collaboration and subsequently BI services and possibly extranet.**** > > The web site is mostly static and has few hundred visitors each day.**** > > Intranet users will be around 500.**** > > ** ** > > We are thinking to have website and intranet/extranet on same server farm. > **** > > Is it okay to have website and intranet on the same farm.. any pitfalls or > pointers suggestions**** > > Next question**** > > As per example farm topologies in the MS topology guide > http://zoom.it/AgjL#full ,, for less than 1000 users - > 2 load balanced servers, which will have all the services running and > database server should be fine. > > Concurrent users will be about 100**** > > ** ** > > Do you think this is okay or is any good reason to add App Server in the > mix, the website is fairly low usage and will likely remain so...**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > ozmoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozmoss > >
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