I’m now trying to get my feet wet in networking since dedicated servers have gotten cheaper than dedicated clouds. VPS use to be the beer money, now it’s the other way around. I have two of these cheap servers at the same data-center that I have not yet connect to. In the end I want to automate them to run FreeBSD, Apache, NGINX, MySQL using PHP and C++. I read an article a long time ago of how this guy ran a complete automated FreeBSD system for many years, updates and all. That what brought me to using FreeBSD in the first place, but I turned into a multi-desktop and partitioning geek; duel-boot heaven, now I’m bored!
I know enough that security comes first for FreeBSD and I am willing to pay for it just to see it work if nothing else. I want to connect to them through a VPN provider. It will be many months before I put these servers into production. One will be hosting a bunch of websites and the other might be used for backing up server-2, and acting as a firewall, acting as a monitor, acting as a near-standalone database, at the front-end but works as the back-end server for sever-2. I’m hoping for suggestions, and correction of my wild ideas. I hope they are not so cheap to have only one Ethernet port. I’m thinking with two I can make it happen; but I don’t really know.
1) Once I make a secure connection to the VPN, will the same secure connection hit server-1 once it leave the VPN.
2) I have one FreeBSD GNOME workstation that will never be use other than to connect to these remote servers through the VPN. If nothing happen on my end or the VPN’s, is it relevantly safe to keep this first connect running for a month or two?
3) What are the most recommended ports to use to get started from top to bottom?
It took me every bit of last night (trials and many errors) to get to know openssl, to the point where I actually understand and saw how everything work. Tonight I will install openvpn and stunnel. Java something is needed for KVM for BIOS access. What should I be looking for? That’s all I read about so far, but everybody talk Linux.
I really appreciate any help you can provide.
max21
I know enough that security comes first for FreeBSD and I am willing to pay for it just to see it work if nothing else. I want to connect to them through a VPN provider. It will be many months before I put these servers into production. One will be hosting a bunch of websites and the other might be used for backing up server-2, and acting as a firewall, acting as a monitor, acting as a near-standalone database, at the front-end but works as the back-end server for sever-2. I’m hoping for suggestions, and correction of my wild ideas. I hope they are not so cheap to have only one Ethernet port. I’m thinking with two I can make it happen; but I don’t really know.
1) Once I make a secure connection to the VPN, will the same secure connection hit server-1 once it leave the VPN.
2) I have one FreeBSD GNOME workstation that will never be use other than to connect to these remote servers through the VPN. If nothing happen on my end or the VPN’s, is it relevantly safe to keep this first connect running for a month or two?
3) What are the most recommended ports to use to get started from top to bottom?
It took me every bit of last night (trials and many errors) to get to know openssl, to the point where I actually understand and saw how everything work. Tonight I will install openvpn and stunnel. Java something is needed for KVM for BIOS access. What should I be looking for? That’s all I read about so far, but everybody talk Linux.
I really appreciate any help you can provide.
max21