[ubuntu-za] ebox and others...

[Charl Wentzel]

> On the otherhand setting up DHCP, DNS, OpenVPN, Internet router with
> redundant routes and dynamic load sharing, firewall and proxy server
> with software RAID on an old Pentium 4 in less than 2 hours is quite
> amazing.

While it sounds cool, having my files on the network edge scares the 
hell out of me!  If the one box is compromised, you lose your entire 
security.  But I am paid to be paranoid. :)

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That's the cool thing about EBOX, you can set up what you want and on
multiple servers, they actually split it into 4 standard boxes, but you
can mix it any way you want.  So you can setup a router, firewall, etc
on one machine and then your file/print server on another machine, etc.

So you get that separation that makes it more secure.  This is also the
way they promote it.  However, if you feel like a cowboy you could put
everything on the same box.

Also EBOXes makes nice virtual machines!