Hi,
I'm considering taking our websites away from shared hosting with our local ISP and switching to co-locating our own server.
We plan on using a reasonably powered small appliance server running Linux to handle web serving, mail, DNS etc, so whatever we choose hardware wise it'll be a jack of all trades.
My question relates to what would be acceptable security for such a machine with a live internet connection? Will running IP Tables with sufficiently tight rules to block all non-essential ports manage for most instances or would separate firewalling (provided by the co-location provider in this case) be required? My main concern is that too much is running on one machine increasing the potential for exploits and to include IP security on the same machine may prove weak.
Is IP Tables and any other possible software based security running on the web server machine a reasonably solid setup?
Any views much appreciated.
Thanks, Andrew.
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