Question about pfSense Site to Site VPN
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yes Sir i'm an arabic speaker, did you heard about Morocco before
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but if we host this application, will it be safe and private ???
Most likely safer than it is now. It depends where you host, of course, just like it depends how well you secure it yourself. But, in general, the big enterprise hosts are the safest places anywhere. Those are the big ones like Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, IBM / Softlayer, etc. They are extremely secure. You would get your own OS instance, so you would have full control of the server just as if it were your own.
you meant, they will provide me with a virtual OS in their server right
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but if we host this application, will it be safe and private ???
Most likely safer than it is now. It depends where you host, of course, just like it depends how well you secure it yourself. But, in general, the big enterprise hosts are the safest places anywhere. Those are the big ones like Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, IBM / Softlayer, etc. They are extremely secure. You would get your own OS instance, so you would have full control of the server just as if it were your own.
you meant, they will provide me with a virtual OS in their server right
i have to pay for a windows server licence or not???
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@IT-ADMIN said:
yes Sir i'm an arabic speaker, did you heard about Morocco before
LOL, yes I know Morocco. We are actually thinking about going there later this year. I've never been there but have been as close as Madrid and Lisbon. My family is considering spending a month in Spain this year and if we do we will certainly hop the ferry over to Morocco too. But we haven't settled on Spain for this year. We are also considering Croatia and are known to change our minds dramatically at the last minute. Although with only a few months left to go, we need to decide pretty soon. Those are our two most likely locations for this year. Partially it will depend if I am attending VMWorld in Barcelona or not.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but if we host this application, will it be safe and private ???
Most likely safer than it is now. It depends where you host, of course, just like it depends how well you secure it yourself. But, in general, the big enterprise hosts are the safest places anywhere. Those are the big ones like Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, IBM / Softlayer, etc. They are extremely secure. You would get your own OS instance, so you would have full control of the server just as if it were your own.
you meant, they will provide me with a virtual OS in their server right
Correct. You would still be the administrator and be the only person with access.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
i have to pay for a windows server licence or not???
Sort of. You pay a monthly fee for the server and the license is included. You don't buy a license, but the cost of the service includes the license. So in a way you pay for it, but you don't need to worry about getting a license.
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How much memory does your application server use today? And I assume that it is running on Windows, hence the question about the license.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
i have to pay for a windows server licence or not???
Sort of. You pay a monthly fee for the server and the license is included. You don't buy a license, but the cost of the service includes the license. So in a way you pay for it, but you don't need to worry about getting a license.
yes Mr Scott, i full understand you, thank you very much for you tireless efforts to propose new ideas
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@IT-ADMIN said:
yes Mr Scott, i full understand you, thank you very much for you tireless efforts to propose new ideas
Glad to help, gives me a nice break from cleaning the house which is what I am doing when not typing.
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@scottalanmiller said:
How much memory does your application server use today? And I assume that it is running on Windows, hence the question about the license.
the size taken by the application installation is 105 MB and the database is about 100 MB
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
yes Mr Scott, i full understand you, thank you very much for you tireless efforts to propose new ideas
Glad to help, gives me a nice break from cleaning the house which is what I am doing when not typing.
hhhh, can i help you in your cleaning, i'm professional at this
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@scottalanmiller said:
How much memory does your application server use today? And I assume that it is running on Windows, hence the question about the license.
yes the application is running on windows server 2008 R2, and use SQL Server for database, and the server is joined to our Domain,
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
yes Sir i'm an arabic speaker, did you heard about Morocco before
LOL, yes I know Morocco. We are actually thinking about going there later this year. I've never been there but have been as close as Madrid and Lisbon. My family is considering spending a month in Spain this year and if we do we will certainly hop the ferry over to Morocco too. But we haven't settled on Spain for this year. We are also considering Croatia and are known to change our minds dramatically at the last minute. Although with only a few months left to go, we need to decide pretty soon. Those are our two most likely locations for this year. Partially it will depend if I am attending VMWorld in Barcelona or not.
i hope you enjoy your stay in morocco
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@scottalanmiller said:
How much memory does your application server use today? And I assume that it is running on Windows, hence the question about the license.
the size taken by the application installation is 105 MB and the database is about 100 MB
Seems like a 2GB system might be enough. 4GB at most. From Rackspace that is $73/mo for their performance one tier with SSD storage in RAID 10 for crazy IOPS and 400Mb/s network connection. To go to 4GB of RAM is $146/mo.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
yes Mr Scott, i full understand you, thank you very much for you tireless efforts to propose new ideas
Glad to help, gives me a nice break from cleaning the house which is what I am doing when not typing.
hhhh, can i help you in your cleaning, i'm professional at this
Come on over! We will have this place clean in no time.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
do you mean by not relying on DDNS that i have to change the IP myself in each IP change ????
With OpenVPN you can have one side always be the initiator, thus you do not need a static IP at both ends. IPSEC lets you do this to, but I always have bad luck with it.
I only skimmed the rest of the thread with Scott, but it looks like you may not be able to get a static IP at either office? that does make it difficult. In that instance I would change the remote office to be the side always initiating things, then you can always know that you only have to handle NDS changes when the main office gets a new IP.
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@JaredBusch said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
do you mean by not relying on DDNS that i have to change the IP myself in each IP change ????
With OpenVPN you can have one side always be the initiator, thus you do not need a static IP at both ends. IPSEC lets you do this to, but I always have bad luck with it.
I only skimmed the rest of the thread with Scott, but it looks like you may not be able to get a static IP at either office? that does make it difficult. In that instance I would change the remote office to be the side always initiating things, then you can always know that you only have to handle NDS changes when the main office gets a new IP.
Correct, neither end has static.
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I cannot edit my post now, because you replied I assume? this is bad.. I see a typo.. NDS.... /sigh
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@JaredBusch said:
I cannot edit my post now, because you replied I assume? this is bad.. I see a typo.. NDS.... /sigh
I can edit my old posts just above your reply. I can't figure out why you don't see an edit option.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
in the future we can think about hosting our data (files) in the cloud, but what about Application server, this is the problem we cannot install our application in an outside server in the cloud,
For legal reasons?
honestly i don't know, but i think that the IT company that sold us this application will not accept to install it in an hosted server as far as i can see
Then you don't tell them, silly.
I can tell you that using a hosted server would solve your issue pretty well. It would give you a point to relay both offices off of to bridge the networks together. Our company also gives you the option of naming your server whatever you want. So match it to your naming convention within your current environment, use it as your VPN/Application server, and have the company install it as if it was within your own environment. Most of these kinds of things, the guys installing it are complete and utter morons, they will never figure it out.
Or, if push comes to shove, just use a P2V utility like Vmware Converter on your current install, be it physical or virtual, spin up a cloud server and upload the image to it. No muss, no fuss.
