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On May 31, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Mike Purdy wrote:

> I have a client who would like to host a website via apache to public
> visitors, as well as have the same server run afp, windows
> services, and
> act as a PDC for Windows users.  It is a small shop...probably 10
> users.
>  I don't doubt that a new MacPro could handle the load, but I
> wonder of
> the prudence of allowing public connections to the webserver on a box
> that hosts private network services also.  Not knowing the details of
> how these different services are sandboxed, I figured I would pose the
> question here.  Is there any reason to be concerned about this, or
> would
> they coexist fine?

I have run medium-volume web servers (~3k visitors per day on lots of
different pages and graphics) where every page was server-parsed
(shtml with three include files) and every page also ran two or more
perlscripts... This ran on a 100 MHz 486 linux box, and the server
was never other than lightning-fast. Apache is amazingly efficient,
as are most other linux web server technologies.

I know this isn't the question you asked, but still... is it possible
they could consider setting up a very cheap apache box? I'll bet it
could be done for less than $100, if you don't mind slightly-used
technology.

As for the question you did ask, I think the party line is that
technically it is supposed to be OK, but healthy paranoia would
suggest otherwise. It also somewhat depends on the setup. If, for
example, they're going to ftp files up to the web server from remote
locations, then I would be very leery indeed.
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