Home web server

[Daniel Armstrong]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Ken Burtch <ken-8VyUGRzHQ8IsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 May 2010, Daniel Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Hi all... Anybody hosting their own web server from home?
>
> Yes, though it looks like it didn't come back up after yesterday's power
> failure.
>
> Always put your webserver on a separate subnet and configure your router so
> that the web server is a DMZ.  This way, you can connect to the web server
> from your other compuers, but you can't connect in the other direction.
>  This prevents someone hacking your web server from gaining access to your
> other computers.

Thamks Ken... I will have to read up on some basic iptables rules to
get this going.
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