On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:59 PM, David Njuki <njukey@gmail.com> wrote:

Are these guys serious? Hosting the database server on the same machine as the web server?

Not affiliated with Safaricom but what is the issue you have with hosting dbase and web on the same server, I know most people do that. I do it without any complications.

Its not about the complications, its the risk you expose yourself to.

In Utopia, the database server is different from the web server and set up such that it can only be accessed from the IP address of the web server. Therefore, for someone to get unauthorized access to your database, they need to hack the web server first, then hack the database server from the web server. Two levels of obstacles.

But then again, thats Utopia.