Another whacked plan

[elfs]

I own an IP address. This isn't unusual in and of itself. The bandwidth is pretty small, but it's tolerable; I have easily pumped a gigabyte a day through it without a problem, and my ISP is tolerant of people running servers on their system.

In my closet, as I speak, is Kouryou-chan's own computer. It's a dinky little thing, a P2/233 with 64MB of memory. So, here's the stupid thought of the day: Is there any reason I couldn't run, say, pendorwright.com out of my closet?

Here's what I'm thinking: I'll put a third NIC into the firewall box and configure a completely independent subnet for it, and route all outside traffic heading for port 80 to the subnet on that third NIC, the DMZ. Is there any reason this wouldn't work?

I'm a little itchy about publicizing my IP address, although it's not a state secret or anything like that. And my firewall's been pretty robust. I just worry about compromised traffic; I'd have to firewall off the rest of world from the DMZ box, and control access to the DMZ, and while I'm a pretty damned fine system administrator, there's only one of me and a whole bunch of black hats out there.

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Re: Devil's Advocate

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I don't think the bandwidth is really an issue. The Journal Entries use 1.5GB of bandwidth a month. I can suck down that much traffic in a couple of hours, and my regular use is actually much more modest than my ocassional bursts of usenet heaviness.

I do worry about the security, though. That's my biggest scare.