Re: Courtyard arrangement - Jeff Middleton

Jeff did not have any immediate recollection of the whole courtyard thing.
If you have a link it make refresh some memory.

Unfortunately this is one of those cases when the say, you have to spend
money to make money, probably holds true.

Just remember, if this is connected to your accounting software, you are
exposing your company's financial data and records to the web.

I would hope that you've researched the kind of connections between your
webserver and the backend stuff and how the software protects that.

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"Anthony Smith" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply Cris. As stated in my post I don't have much of a
choice because of our new accounting software. The ecommerce site that
comes with the software is top of the line. We'll be forking out
hundreds/mo for hosting both accounting & website or if we just had an ISP
for the site, setting up a VPN tunnel is expensive also. We have to try
hosting in-house. When sales increase with this website and visitors
increase than we can justify hosting it offsite God willing. With approx.
2000-3000 visitors per month our cable connection should be fine. We can
get close to 1MB UP with about 8MB down with our cable/internet provider.

Thanks for pinging Jeff for me.
"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:OzzWMMxlHHA.960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
one of the main problems with folks hosting a public website (putting
security issues aside)...especially for ecommerce and if you plan a
reasonable volume of business, is your connection to the internet? What
is your uplink speed to the net

Most business connections are either 384 or 512kbps uplink....Not ideal
for webhosting...thats why its always better to put it with the folks who
have the big pipes.

If I want to buy something from a website, and performance is poor..I may
cancel or not buy there again.

I'm trying to ping Jeff to alert him to your posting.


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Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
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Microsoft MVPs
Independent Experts (MVPs do not work for MS)
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Please do not contact me directly regarding issues

"Anthony Smith" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Good Afternoon,

I'm looking to set up a webserver for a public website and after
searching google for information on this topic I found several
discussions that Jeff Middleton was in. I am interested in learning
more about this courtyard arrangement spoken of in a Aug 5th 2002 topic
called "SBS and hosting (newbie at hosting)".

We're running SBS2003 and just added a member server Windows 2003 R2.
I'm assuming I will have to remove this as a member server since we will
be implementing a DMZ. The reason we are hosting our website because
our business accounting application(SQL backend) that is run on SBS
allows us to put our products online but the database and ecommerce must
reside in same building or set up an expensive VPN tunnel with an ISP.
We could have an ISP host the database application AND website or we
have to host it ourselves, as long as the database and website are under
1 roof it's ok as I was told by the software vendor. It'll be too
expensive for us to have the database local and set up a VPN tunnel to a
ISP. So we're going to try to host it ourselves.

After looking at several discussions, I like this courtyard arrangement
referenced in the discussion "SBS and hosting (newbie at hosting)". Do
you have a diagram possibly showing how this would be done. Also is
there any documented information for setting this up? Would you still
recommend this arrangement in 2007? (smile) This was your recommendation
among others back in 2002.

Thanks!

Sincerely,
Anthony Smith
In God We Trust!








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