[Sussex] Tight File Server

Nic James Ferrier nferrier at tapsellferrier.co.uk
Thu Jul 12 08:45:03 UTC 2007


"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel at gmail.com> writes:

> As soon as you do *anything* CPU intensive, such as SSL access, SSH access,
> virtual hosts,  serving more than a few users at a time, you're going to
> start swapping like nobody's business. This is going to dog any noticeable
> performance even worse than the slow CPU will. Like handcarving your own
> doorknobs, it's usually easier and faster just to buy them or even salvage
> them.

Hmmm... maybe the security could be done with just IP restriction?

If the risk is even relatively high (not national security, or vital
competitive data) IP restriction could work at very low CPU/memory
cost.


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Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk   




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