Access server - router

 Access server - router This type of network is most often called routing, in which case the server performs the function of an Internet conductor with its own hands, it is dominated by the presence of several network cards (we will refer to network cards as INTERNET and LAN in the future). The home server itself is connected to the Internet via the INTERNET card, and the second LAN card is connected to the local network, where it is necessary to distribute the Internet. The task of the server itself in this case is to direct traffic to exactly those addresses of computers (clients) that need it. The access server can limit the capabilities of clients, for example, if we need to give Internet access only to certain computers, while others on the same network are used only as local ones. This feature of limiting the client's network capabilities is called a Firewall. Access Server Restrictions can be both in terms of speed and the permission of the client's access to the Interne...

Web server - Web

 Web server - Web





It performs the hosting function, in the assembled server with our own hands we can place a site, for example with PHP and an SQL database, bind the IP of our home server to our domain name, launch a mailbox for our site. Remote administration of our server is carried out using the ISPconfig hosting control panel, which is built on open source code and simplifies the work of a server administrator built on Linux systems. The ISPconfig 3 panel is able to manage several servers from one control panel and separate users among themselves, so you can keep a separate account of each of the clients with individual settings and rights.

web server

The figure below shows the simplest type of hosting, in which management is carried out remotely - via the Internet, when accessing one main server, which in turn manages others. Such a scheme helps to offload the main server and control the load between others.

The main task of such a server is to provide space for a web site, this is if we are talking about a couple of sites and one user, and if your server is designed for several sites and users with your own hands, it is better to think about a virtual server, in this case we full server management is required, preferably remote, for example, a super user or web server administrator must have full control over users and their sites, as well as their resources. It is better to include additional features as resources, for example, support for PHP, SQL databases, creation of additional users for FTP access to the site, and the most important point is to completely isolate users and their resources from each other in order to keep a common record of each one separately. On my mini-server, the ISPconfig hosting control panel copes with this task perfectly and you can see its work on the example of this site and this is not hosting, but a simple home server.