Windows 2000 Web Server setup

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Leo

Hello. I have a Server I just purchased with 2x73GB SCSI
HD. I am setting up Windows 2000 in it and the server will
be strictly a web server. A couple of questions:

1)(very important) Should I make the server a mamber of
the existing domain, or should I make it a Master of a new
domain alltogether?

2) There's no RAID configuration for it right now, but I
think with 2 drives I can only setup RAID1. If so is RAID1
a good idea?

I appreciate the help

LEO
 
Hi Leo,

You should definetely join it to your exitsing domain as a member server,
don't create a new one.

RADI1 is all you can do with a pair of harddrives, and I'd definetely
recommend it here. If at all possible, setup a hardware RAID with the
SCSI/RAID controller included in the mnachine. Software RAID provided by
Windows is slow, and not comparable to hardware RAID performance.

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Leo said:
1)(very important) Should I make the server a mamber of
the existing domain, or should I make it a Master of a new
domain alltogether?
Click to expand...

I run an IIS World Wide Web server joined to the same domain as the rest
of the LAN. There's no URL scan or lockdown tool. This is almost
certainly not "best practice", as someone who hacks the web server could
theoretically hack the rest of the LAN. Amazingly this hasn't happened yet.

Some would say you should have a DMZ. The server is totally separate
from the LAN with it's own IP address and is not joined to a Windows
domain. How the hell you're supposed to connect to your back-end data or
update the web site, I have no idea...
2) There's no RAID configuration for it right now, but I
think with 2 drives I can only setup RAID1. If so is RAID1
a good idea?
Click to expand...

I use hardware RAID-1 for the boot partition, and RAID-5 for the data,
but then I've also got SQL server on the same box. Keeping the data
separate means if the O/S got totally trashed I could re-build the
server without worrying about the data too much. However, if it's just a
web server with static HTML you could argue it's fine on the O/S
partition as you could restore it in five minutes.
 
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