Timothy Murphy wrote:
Sorry, I mis-wrote yet again. What I meant to say was: Is it safer to run a web-server (httpd) on another computer, rather than on the machine running the firewall?
It is safer, if properly-configured, but not necessarily worth while. Doubtless someone will try to break in, but probably they won't try very hard: if all they want is a bot for cracking other systems, sending email and otherwise being a pest, then they probably won't spend a lot of time and effort. OTOH if you're harbouring secrets of or from the {IRA,CIA,Mafia,FBI,Triad}, then you'd want to go to some trouble because those who want your secrets will.
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