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Highly Available Web Server

Zones: Microsoft IIS Web Server, PHP for Windows, MySQL

Tags: IIS

Hello,

We were paying a 3rd party to host our company website but it keeps getting hacked so we are bringing it in-house and the task of deploying it has fallen to me... I need to design a solution to have our website up and running in a secure manner. I have been given 3 servers that I can deploy the website on and I can purchase more if I need to. I am not an expert on deploying web servers but I am going to become one in the next coupe of days ;)

The website is a PHP based website that pulls information from a MySQL database.

My initial thought is to use two of these servers as front end servers and put them in DMZ's at two of our corporate offices and have them access the MySQL database on the 3rd server which we will put somewhere on our corporate network. We have a robust network with over 500mb of bandwidth between our sites so I am not concerned about access times...

What I am unsure of is how to deploy this in the most efficient manner possible,

- If I have both of the front end servers running Windows 2003 SP2 and serve up the pages using IIS which is pulling the info out of the 3rd server is there a vulnerability that I am not taking into consideration?
- Where is the spot that is most likely to give me problems?
- Do I need a 4th server to do database clustering (This is an option for us)?
- Are there things that I should be taking into consideration?
- Is there a Microsoft document on how to deploy web servers in some kind of cluster configuration so that if one fails the website will still be up?
- Is there a way to secure the database so that code cannot be inserted into it?

Sorry for the poorly worded question,
Matt

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Zone: Web Development

Question Asked By: brownmattc

Solution Provided By: nplib

Participating Experts: 3

Solution Grade: A

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