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by saellis

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Can anyone recommend a firewall for a very small company that has a web server? I have been researching various firewall options but have just gotten more confused. Please help!!!!

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by sgt_shultz

can you give us an idea of your budget? you have the webserver in-house? are you contemplating putting the server in a DMZ?

by saellis

Our budget is pretty small (less than $500) and yes the server is in house. I'm not sure what you mean by DMZ, I am new to this. Thanks!

by cactus pete

ZoneAlarm from www.zonelabs.com is a software based firewall that does a very good low budget job.

Additionally, the personal version is free. I think the Pro version may be $70...

by cactus pete

Nando has a good point.

What is the ultimate purpose of this firewall? Just to protect the web server? Or is it for the entire small company?

I run a small private network of my own. For that I use a 6 year old computer with Linux. I've just bought a new machine for less than $300, and plan to migrate the system. I am wanting it to run more than just firewall, so I got lots of RAM and disk space... [not to mention the lowest end processor you can buy new is many times better than anything from 6 years ago...]

by fjaramillo

The NetGear RT311 or RT314 is a very good firewall for the money ($90). Personally I prefer a Hardware solution. Web-Based management GUI.
Allows you to map ports to private IP Addresses.
Highly recommended.

Nando

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