Re: Hardware Software suggestions

2001-01-22 Thread Jon Hall
Everything looks cool to me, although why not just use the IIS ftp, since you are using it for the web server? One less thing to go wrong... Make sure you kill all the default security holes for him (frontpage, +.htr...), or he will call in a panic one day. 512 Megs is probably overkill too. Stick

Re: Hardware Software suggestions

2001-01-22 Thread Jim McAtee
This doesn't make much sense. He's willing to spend thousands of dollars on hardware and software, then connect the system to the Internet via a shared connection over a single T1 through a neighboring office??? If he can afford occasional outages for minutes or hours at a time, this might be ac

Re: Hardware Software suggestions

2001-01-22 Thread Dick Applebaum
At 8:05 AM -0800 1/22/01, Terry Troxel wrote: >I have a client who is planning on putting up his own server for his website >and I would like some advice. > >His site is a private site for affiliates to compile & share various >information on and will not be using ecommerce and will probably >neve

RE: Hardware Software suggestions

2001-01-22 Thread Tony Gruen
Terry, I only have one suggestion. Security. Don't leave the most important aspect to someone else. If something happens you can guarantee that the response he will get from the other group who handles the firewall will be "well, we never had any problems" (IE: It is not our problem). Get a Watchg