Re: Creating a partition in unpartioned space

Website/Port 80 attacks are the most common point of attack for malicious activity on the web
Hosting your own website is like leaving the doors and windows on your house unlocked and putting up a huge sign that says, "Hey I have great stuff at my house and the doors are unlocked...COME and GET it"

If you personal, financial or other sensitive data on your home network, you can expect it to be compromised. You can expect folks to drop payloads, music shares, etc on your server so you get screwed for peer-2-peer sharing, and the list goes on

None of my customers and very few if any of the other MVPS have customer's who host their own site.

Short of a completely separate, firewalled server, not connected to anything else in the world except the net, really bad idea

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"per4mer" <per4mer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:93DAF079-890D-4DEC-A04A-594A921E29BF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'd be hosting the website purely for the end to end experience of making it
work, rather than trying to attract the world to my door. With that said,
what is the risk of hosting on my SBS server other than network performance
degradation issues on my home network while the website was being hit?

Alternately, I could resurrect another P-4, 2.4 and dedicate it to
webhosting, although I'm not sure my SBS license would allow me to do that.
Would that be a better way to proceed understanding my load or would that be
overkill?

Anything to do with the home based business would be hosted by an ISP.

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

you'll want to consider bumping the ram up to at least 1.5
DO NOT Host your website there...you're just asking for trouble there

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"per4mer" <per4mer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3856E0E5-8DCD-4E0A-A687-45349996D2A6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It's a P4-2.4, 768MB RAM, repurposed PC with an 80GB single drive (I > have
> a
> 250GB waiting in the wings that I can drop in as a second drive as
> needed),
> loaded with SBS 2003 R2 Premium running in single NIC mode, destined to > be
> used as a home server. None of it's work will be mission-critical, but
> rather to help me learn more about the capabilities of the server. My
> near
> term goals are to:
>
> 1) host a website for which I own a domain name
> 2) host new email addresses that I will create
> 3) use the server to back up our 5 home desktops/notebooks.
> 4) explore Sharepoint and how it can be used in a home / home-based > small
> business environment.
> 5) host an FTP server
>
> I plan to always keep my primary existing emails hosted by an ISP while > I
> bump my head getting the Exchange Server working right. Regarding the
> single
> NIC decision, I tried to read up in advance and went single NIC, to
> prevent
> wreaking havoc with the family's internet connectivity while I noodled
> around. I'm considering dropping in a second NIC and using SBS with a
> spare
> wireless router that I have, configuring it for use with SBS. If
> everything
> works, then great. If it doesn't, I can default back to the regular
> router
> that I am CERTAIN will work while I keep tinkering while the family
> sleeps -
> lol.
>
>
> Load should be extremely light with a sporadic duty cycle.
>
> Thanks for asking, I appreciate your advice.
>
> "Henry Craven {MVP}" wrote:
>
>> SBS Management
>> > Advanced Management
>> > Storage
>> > Disk Management
>> > Right / Alternate Mouse click the Unallocated Space
>> Create your Extended partition and Logical Drives
>> Name & Format them. (NTFS of course)
>>
>> p.s. In the interest of saving you hassles later....
>> Is this a "real" sever or just a workstation you're testing SBS on ?
>> What's you load, and Disk Subsystem ?
>> -- >> Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
>>
>>
>>
>> "per4mer" <per4mer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:FD853A64-B3FA-4EEB-9803-5EB3F4A4270E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > When setting up SBS on a spare computer that formerly ran Win XP >> > Pro, I
>> > elected to repartition the existing hard drive. I allocated 30GB to
>> > the
>> > C:
>> > partition for system files. Setup didn't prompt me to create a D:
>> > partition,
>> > so I never did. Now, I'm fully installed, but have no access to the
>> > balance
>> > of my hard drive. How can I create a D: partition now to access the
>> > balance
>> > of my hard drive?
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>


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