[SOLVED]Multiple servers/services with only one machine

jantonio2992 · 2013-12-03 15:37:11

Hello,

First of all, thank you for taking time to read this post.

Long story short: I had a machine laying around so i decided i would use it as a router/wireless access point since my isp router isn't working so well, but since the machine is not working anymore, and i don't have the resources(a.k.a. money) to fix it, i decided to use my main machine instead and make my laptop my main machine.

I have been reading the arch wiki regarding how to make a router and a wireless access point, but then i remembered something, what if i decide i need another server(http/https, ftp, NAS, IRC) which i might want, could i use virtualbox?

So my question is: can i have my computer with arch serving as a router + wireless access point and on the same machine, virtual machines with arch running other services? If i kept the files from this servers, like the www folder, of ftp folder, on the host machine would this be a security risk? This not intended for a enterprise environment, only here at home.

Thank you.

Last edited by jantonio2992 (2013-12-03 17:12:24)

progandy · 2013-12-03 15:59:44

You can add virtual machines, sandboxes, namespaces, linux containers or just run the server software on the same installation. The services each use a different port, so you can run them simultaneously, too. If you are careful with the assignment of users and groups for your services and install security updates, you should be okay.

Last edited by progandy (2013-12-03 16:07:50)

jantonio2992 · 2013-12-03 16:48:57

progandy wrote:

You can add virtual machines, sandboxes, namespaces, linux containers or just run the server software on the same installation. The services each use a different port, so you can run them simultaneously, too. If you are careful with the assignment of users and groups for your services and install security updates, you should be okay.

Hey, second time you help me, thank you very much.

Ok, so i can run everything in this machine. Can i still use this machine as a main machine (using virtual machines to test apps and its configs)? Or that might make me break the system?

Last edited by jantonio2992 (2013-12-03 17:00:44)

progandy · 2013-12-03 17:03:55

It depends on the processing power and your amount of ram. If you do too much at once, everything will be slow.

ewaller · 2013-12-03 17:06:08

jantonio2992 wrote:

Ok, so i can run everything in this machine. Can i still use this machine as a main machine (using virtual machines to test apps and its configs)? Or that might make me break the system?

That would depend on the traffic If it is just for you or your LAN, probably not a problem (unless you are streaming video to a bunch of machines). <Sarcasm>OTOH, unlike others, you might want try to run an entire national health care sign-up site on it * </Sarcasm>

* Note ... I have no concept as to the real architecture of the Affordable Health Care Act web site.

Edit: Too slow.

Last edited by ewaller (2013-12-03 17:06:34)

jantonio2992 · 2013-12-03 17:12:03

progandy wrote:

It depends on the processing power and your amount of ram. If you do too much at once, everything will be slow.

hmmm... with a Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.80 and 4GB of Ram i don't think it would be a problem. The hard-drives might be slow tough... I guess i would have to check that myself after installing everything and do some tests.

thank you very much. I wonder if some Mod will be upset that i post questions so easy to answer..

thank you very much. Marking as solved.

jantonio2992 · 2013-12-03 17:16:08

ewaller wrote:

jantonio2992 wrote:
Ok, so i can run everything in this machine. Can i still use this machine as a main machine (using virtual machines to test apps and its configs)? Or that might make me break the system?
That would depend on the traffic If it is just for you or your LAN, probably not a problem (unless you are streaming video to a bunch of machines). <Sarcasm>OTOH, unlike others, you might want try to run an entire national health care sign-up site on it * </Sarcasm>
* Note ... I have no concept as to the real architecture of the Affordable Health Care Act web site.

Edit: Too slow.

Sorry i didn't see you answer befores i posted my last. It would be only for my Lan, only serve i would run to the Internet would be SSH.. And no streaming video

nomorewindows · 2013-12-03 22:53:54

ewaller wrote:

<Sarcasm>OTOH, unlike others, you might want try to run an entire national health care sign-up site on it * </Sarcasm>
* Note ... I have no concept as to the real architecture of the Affordable Health Care Act web site.

Apparently according to industry experts there wasn't any security implementation. Maybe OhNo needed an extra few more SSNs than he already had.

telnet healthcare.gov 80
Trying 23.79.215.205...
Connected to healthcare.gov.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / INDEX.HTM

HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 216
Expires: 
Date: 
Connection: close

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Bad Request</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Bad Request</H1>
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<P>
Reference
</BODY>
</HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.

Apparently a simple GET request is considered too complicated for it.

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[SOLVED]Multiple servers/services with only one machine

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