Re: How to do this?
From: Colin Basterfield (colinbasterfield_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/22/03
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:18:39 +1300
Picking up on a good firewall, what would you recommend?
"John Timney (Microsoft MVP)" <timneyj@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> > supporting around 20 users. The server is connected to a broadband
> > connection. Is it viable for us to run an asp.net web site on the same
> > server that allows visitors (around ten on average) to view the content
of
> > the internal database?
>
> Yes - its viable, but with access its not really recommended. If they all
> connect together then you will get concurrency problems, as long as the
> connected users remains low then you should be OK. 10 might be pushing it
> for Access - you will have to try it and see.
>
> As you can see there are several issues here;
> > performance of server,
> Depends on how big your scripts are, and what they do - and on how well ou
> understand web system design.
>
> security,
> A doozy - you have lots of service packing and server hardening to do.
Hope
> you have a good firewall too.
>
> broadband bandwidth,
> Not likely to be an issue with such a small user base.
>
> access etc.
> Read up on certificates, or work out a way to pass authentication details
in
> a secure way. Depends on how sensitive or mission critical your data is -
> do you allow read, or read/write access etc.
>
> Good luck.....
> --
> Regards
>
> John Timney (Microsoft ASP.NET MVP)
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> "John" <john@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:eY9FB8KyDHA.3416@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi
> >
> > We have an SBS2000 server which has an access database running
internally,
> > supporting around 20 users. The server is connected to a broadband
> > connection. Is it viable for us to run an asp.net web site on the same
> > server that allows visitors (around ten on average) to view the content
of
> > the internal database? As you can see there are several issues here;
> > performance of server, security, broadband bandwidth, access etc.
> >
> > If this is not feasible, what would be the recommended way to achieve
> this?
> > It is not possible to rewrite access database for SQL server just now.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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