Comments on: Understanding your New GoGrid Account

By: Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:47:44 +0000

Well, this post is a bit stale now, I guess. However, for the most part it remains true. For the public NIC, you can't, from my understanding, assign multiple IPs to it. However, I believe that within IIS, you can associate IP addresses to various sites therein (similar to what you can do on Linux with vhosts).

If you have specific questions, I encourage you to open a support request and someone can point you in the right direction.

Sorry for the confusion.

By: Yoav

Yoav — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:59:21 +0000

Hi Michael,

You were saying here that it's possible to add multiple ip's to the same interface( LAN connection 1) on windows instances?
how is this done when the first ip is defined my DHCP ? (the "add" button is disabled in the tcp/ip properties->advanced->ip addresses)

By: Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:55:32 +0000

@Scott,
Interesting scenario. So, you can mount the Cloud Storage on each of your servers within GoGrid. They would all share the same storage. You could, conceivably set up a VPN from your office to GoGrid (static IPs help with that). From there, though, I’m not sure about mapping the Cloud Storage drives via VPN. I have a feeling it might not work, but you could do a test with one server and Cloud Storage with a VPN config.
I’m intrigued so please let me know how it goes and if there is anything I can do to help. I will bounce this around some folks here too.
-Michael

By: Scott Micale

Scott Micale — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:47:55 +0000

I am really curious about your service and have signed up for a trial. What I am looking to do is setup 2-3 windows servers and use them stricty as file servers. I want to then create a cloud storage and then have that cloud accessable to my gogrid servers and also have the cloud accessible to my clients here at my office so they too can use that cloud for their storage. Is that possible and if so how would I make that connection from my local network to my gogrid.com network. I would assume a VPN would be needed. I use a Cisco ASA here so I need to figure out how I would accomplish this with a go grid windows server and my cisco firewall. If you know how to do this I would be really interested in testing this out.

Thanks
Scott

By: Ishu

Ishu — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:13:19 +0000

I understand that FTP access is left due to the security reason. But i think that you guys should put default FTP iptable rules on your blog for the users who want to configure.. As a web developer shall i spend my time on stablising my application or i keep messing with these silly things such as Default FTP support.
Providing iptable rules will save this pain in the neck.

Thanks.

By: Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:57:15 +0000

@Scott,

While there are 3 interfaces, you will only need 2 of them. 1 is for your LAN (private network) and 1 is for your WAN (public network). The other is used by the system to help if there are issues connecting to your server (e.g., if our Support or Professional Services Groups need to access your server or in case you munged up the other interfaces).

In terms of the maximum number of external IPs, you can point many to a single interface, it is not just limited to 1 IP per interface. The setup depends on the server type you are using (Linux/Windows).

Thanks,
Michael

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:28:08 +0000

If I understand the network configuration setup correctly, there are three interfaces that I can use however I want to, but cannot add more?

So the maximum number of external IPs that can point to a single machine is 3? (2 if I want that machine connected to a private network.)

thanks.

By: Bryan Levine

Bryan Levine — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:54:00 +0000

@ Mike,

We leave FTP disabled as a security precaution. Not all users will want FTP installed running on their machines (for instance, you don’t need FTP access with a WordPress blog like this one), and it can cause a security threat to have FTP enabled and running by default with no permissions based access when a server is deployed. FTP needs to be set up properly and according to a user’s preferences, so it’s not something we can predetermine.

I do understand that many of our users do require FTP services and I will be putting a request in to our Development team to add the VSFTP package to our LAMP stacks, but it will still need to be set up and configured by the end user or our Support teams.

-Bryan

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:01:15 +0000

How can you give me a “LAMP web server” with no FTP access enabled by default? You don’t even include the vsftpd application in usr/sbin by default! What a pain in the neck–how am I supposed to transfer files?

By: Michael Sheehan

Michael Sheehan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:46:49 +0000

@Matt,
That is an interesting idea. I haven’t tried it myself but may try it out. VPNs can be pretty daunting for some (I have tried personally implementing OpenVPN on an open source router firmware…worked for a bit but upgrade blew away my configuration).
So, is your idea that you set up a VPN gateway on one server and then network your other servers using private LAN and then use RDC with VPN to connect to other servers within that network?
-Michael