Business Server Setup

[staticengine]

Okay, it's been a long time since I've had to think about any of this stuff (like, pre-1998), so I'm hoping some of my more technical friends can point me in the right direction

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[sd6]

My boss, a genius, and "A Guy Who Would Know" would totally answer this for me if I told him it was my question. I can ask him for advice tomorrow if you like. :)

If he doesn't have the time to give me an answer, I could throw a rock in my department and find you the answer elsewhere. ;)

[staticengine]

Sure. This is public, so if he's into answering questions, you can just send him a link here.

And we'll play poker again soon, I promise. :)

[sd6]

I just sent him an email with a copy of the contents of the post, as well as a link to it. Knowing him, he'll reply directly to me...but I'll post it up here as soon as I hear from him.

[riotdorrrk]

i'd think that one could run an entire small business on a single server for all internal needs. virtualization would further reduce the need for anything else (Windows/Apache, SQL, source control - all on one box) assuming the company website would be externally hosted. but even then, i couldn't imagine the website having extreme amounts of traffic at first, so i would think that'd be doable. this is something i've been wondering as well.

[thedaneurysm]

With a good (or even basic) router, one externally-facing IP should be able to handle the whole mess

[staticengine]

Yeah, I'm using Subversion at home now with Turtle SVN as the Windows client, and so far I like it.

I guess three boxes (Web/email/application server, SQL server, and file/source control server) makes sense.

Thanks.

[sd6]

Here's what my boss says:

Having done dozens of these, depending on the size of the business if it's 25 or less just register a domain point it at google apps for email, web, collaboration etc. Nearly 0 admin time, good spam control.. $50 per year per person then set up your local apps server for your specialized stuff. A single static IP would be fine as it can be mapped from your gateway router to any service running inside the DMZ. I have a 20MBs connection from QWEST that is only $79 per month. SBS would probably be overkill. Subscribe to Windows Live Meeting for teleconference etc.

If he doesn't like the G word there other services that provide these services but they usually cost more and provide less.

[sonder]

You can access everything you need at productsweb. Because hey...it's for work, right?

[staticengine]

Heh, not really, but thanks for the reminder.

[staticengine]

Let's say, for argument's sake, that I'm asking for a friend.

[sonder]

Then I say the friend would need two servers, a PDC and an SDC both running 2k8. The SDC that will run exchange and SUS as well as IIS, while the PDC will handle SQL, IAS, and domain administration as well as captian DHCP.