[dba-Tech] Apache Web Server

Right, bit of a delay in a response, but actually got to speak to a
sensible person at Virgin who supply my broadband, well actually they
called me after all my moaning emails to them and on their Facebook page
lol....I am still on a 20mb line with a cable modem until the 27th March,
but they are now going to upgrade me to their latest virgin media superhub
2 modem and wireless router, upgrade me from 20mb to 100mb and reduce the
amount I pay a month (I should now moan about why has it taken them so long
to look after an existing customer, but will leave them for a while now
lol).....

So now will I still need an external firewall with this superhub2 router if
I want to host my own web stuff on something like apache, there is a little
piece about the superhub2 here
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/wifi-routers/383725/virgin-media-super-hub/specifications
.

Paul







On 17 February 2014 17:49, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Paul:
>
> Maybe your company could invest in a router. The beauty of a router is
> that you can shut all ports except the particular ones you need. If you are
> just doing mail the only port you leave open is port 80 and then you are
> one hundred percent protected as long as you don't run some mail received
> malware....no need for all those other firewalls...as they are only needed
> to protect others from your malware and your windows products are generally
> good enough.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Hartland" <paul.hartland at googlemail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 7:45:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Apache Web Server
>
> Jim/Arthur,
>
> This is where I show how much I do NOT know, I am in the UK with a company
> called Virgin, using a cabled broadband modem, basically cable from wall
> socket into modem into PC.  I am assuming that I do not have a router,
> unless their is something built into the broadband modem (hides face in
> shame)...
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> On 17 February 2014 15:41, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul:
> >
> > You do have a router?
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul Hartland" <paul.hartland at googlemail.com>
> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 6:08:45 AM
> > Subject: [dba-Tech] Apache Web Server
> >
> > To all,
> >
> > Last year (being a total novice with web stuff) I put the Apache web
> server
> > on my PC and basically put a very simple page saying 'Hello World' and
> > asked a friend to see if they could see the page, to my amazement yes
> they
> > could, then to my disappointment another friend said people would find it
> > easy to hack into my machine and I would need a firewall (think he said
> > hardware one) in between my broadband box and my PC.  Is this correct and
> > if so does anyone have any suggestions as I have lost contact with that
> > friend after he moved to Australia.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help on this.
> >
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