Re: Anti virus and Firewall

[Michal <michal@sharescope.co.uk>]

On 03/08/10 22:43, Tingez Unknown wrote:

Hi all Debian people,

Firstly i am very new to Debian so please excuse me for my lack of understanding. I have recently got a Dedicated server box for my gaming Clan and have had Debian 5 64bit installed on it. Now as we will eventually be using the server for our web site for forums, Emails, sending and receiving files and all other aspects web site related, fast redirect downloading system for game server maps, mods etc., ftp, Big brother bot game server software and game servers of varying games.

I am looking for any suggestions regarding Anti virus and firewall software that is suitable with your Debian 5 64bit operating system. Wanting to add as much security as possible to our server to reduce any problems we may encounter. I would like any suggestions as to the best software that can be used either paid for or freeware if you would be so kind.



Kind Regards

Martin

Will your server be able to take that load? I used to run a game hosting company and made it a rule that game servers hosted game rooms, the web server dealt with the websites and the teamspeak/vent servers and our redirect servers where dotted around America and we used a sort of basic geo-ip type redirection. We had lots of customers so our needs are different from yours, but I just want you to make sure your 1 server can take that load. We, and other friends we had the industry, made it a rule that web/voice never went on game servers. However your milage will vary of course.

Firewalling can be easy with iptables and so forth, on windows boxes we used IPSEC and all that stuff is very similar and easy to use/manage.

AV...well, unless you will have people uploading files as and wish they please you will probably not need this and I've seen many many friends run this sort of operation with no problems. It all depends on what, if any, files will be uploaded and by who