I will be setting up 2003 SBS with DNS, Exchange, FTP & Web server, file server, etc. Should these services be installed on separate servers, or will it be ok with them all on the same machine? If all on same machine, should they all be on separate hard drives, etc?
Network will only have 40-50 users, plus various devices. If you need more info, let me know and i'll post it, or contact me at imwalt@hotmail.com. Thanks.
2006-09-17 07:44:24 · 4 answers · asked by mlinnj 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
You might want to separate the mail (Exchange) and other web servers. You'll probably want at least two DNS servers anyway, so if one goes out, you will have a backup.
If at all possible, use some form of RAID other than Level 0 (which doesn't have redundancy) to help protect your data. I'd recommend Level 1 or 5 (5 requires 3 or more drives). Also make sure to perform regular backups, even if you are using RAID. Look up a grandparent, parent, child rotation schedule for managing your backups.
If you are limited on servers, I would have a DNS, Exchange, file server and DNS, FTP (if needed), web server. You'll probably want to use Active Directory also, so you would need two of those also.
A good thing to try and do is isolate anything that will need a direct connection to the web. That way, you are less susceptible to attacks from the web. Ideally, all you want to have directly connected to the web is your web server, ftp if you need it, and a mail router, not the mail server itself. Everything else should be behind firewalls and shouldn't have routeable IPs (private IPs, such as the 10.x.x.x).
2006-09-17 07:58:05 · answer #1 · answered by Bryan A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The totally sensible version is homestead windows Server 2003. It helps Subdomains, distinctive domain names, many protection communities and upto 40000 customers. Small enterprise Server is a scaled down version of that. i'm no longer able to offer you information approximately it, in spite of if that's often adequate for a small to medium sized business enterprise.
2016-10-15 02:32:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is designed to work that way! More than one machine is always good for redundancy, but not strictly necessary. If you use good hardware meant for servers you will be miles ahead in the performance and reliability department.
Using a RAID setup for the boot-OS drive and another RAID setup for the data storage is very important. It will save a huge amount of your time and usertime by preventing downtime. A spare power supply and hard drives never hurt.
2006-09-17 08:32:06 · answer #3 · answered by hlsj_99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its is ok sbs can handle those thing unless you have a powerful server os has nothing to dso with it sbs runs smoothly in one organisation wheer we have installed for 120 users with lost os heavy application loaded but they a reall powewrful server if yu have a powerful server then it will
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2006-09-17 08:07:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋