I am co-locating a production server in a data center. I want it to be secure as possible while doing it myself.
The server will be *nix/Apache/PHP/MySQL (will separate the MySQL into a separate box at some point later).
I am think about putting a bridging firewall between the server and the internet.
Is that more secure than a regular firewall?
What about later when I add the database server in a separate box, would it be appropriate to have that box behind a bridging firewall?
Thanks
Comparable.
Sure.
No. But if it's well configured, it's not less secure either. But: perhaps you don't need a firewall at all for one single server. Just don't offer services to the net you don't want to offer.
Your biggest security problem seems to be PHP. Most of the PHP software I saw is horrible with cross-side scripting, code injection et.al.
Yours, VB.
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