Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-18 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:58:02 +, schreef Dan Purgert: snip I read it as you were /planning/ on using a Debian box for routing and firewall (and then switched gears to what's a good appliance? midway through the writing), which is why I asked. Honestly, unless you already have said box

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-18 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:50:39 -0700, schreef David Christensen: On 03/17/2015 04:22 AM, Linux4Bene wrote: Thanks for any advice, thoughts, links or info and for your patience if you got this far :) I run a SOHO LAN with ADSL, 4 static IP's, and a few Internet services. I avoid running

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-18 Thread Dan Purgert
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:05:12 +, Linux4Bene wrote: Op Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:58:02 +, schreef Dan Purgert: [snip] You've already got a frontend for them (hint - roundcube) Yes, I just need to find a good plugin allowing for the users to change their password. Dunno about roundcube

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-18 Thread David Christensen
On 03/18/2015 02:14 AM, Linux4Bene wrote: VPS is really suited for www. I still have to figure out how to setup a staging area. Do I go with another VPS server for that or not? Ideally there would be another machine hosting the sites so they are still accessible when the other VPS goes down. I

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:02:31 +, Linux4Bene wrote: Op Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:38:26 +, schreef Dan Purgert: snip Didn't you just say that you were using a Debian box as your firewall/ router? Not yet. I'm still employed ... Currently I have my own VPS running but no business

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-17 Thread David Christensen
On 03/17/2015 04:22 AM, Linux4Bene wrote: Thanks for any advice, thoughts, links or info and for your patience if you got this far :) I run a SOHO LAN with ADSL, 4 static IP's, and a few Internet services. I avoid running key Internet-facing services locally -- my WAN bandwidth is too

Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-17 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, sorry in advance for the lengthy post. I have some questions on organizing and designing a small office environment. Clients and server parts Debian. I have always introduced Debian in every job I had in the last 14 years, and it would be great to finally use them as the default OS on

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:22:29 +, Linux4Bene wrote: Hi, Local setup === I would connect a Debian box with 3 nics to the ISP router to serve as firewall. 1 nic for WAN, 1 for LAN, 1 for DMZ. I have always used iptables to do this. The wan nic would have 1 public IP, LAN

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-17 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:38:26 +, schreef Dan Purgert: snip Didn't you just say that you were using a Debian box as your firewall/ router? Not yet. I'm still employed but have everything up and running in a VPS, and I have all the legal stuff in order like VAT and so on. Legally this means