I don't have Proxmox and PfSense experience, but have watched a couple of YouTube videos about setup.
Wonder if I can get any opinions from anyone with more experiance on a small self-hosted web hosting solution I’m imminently looking to setup.
Networking
Modem -> PFsense Box -> Managed Switch configured with Two VLANS (1 VLAN id(101) for Home LAN, 1 VLAN dedicated (id 901)for exposing the Proxmox Box) -> Proxmox Box
VMs On Proxmox
I only require two VM’s on the Proxmox box:
This is where I get more confused, the PfSense routed web traffic to the Proxmox box is this routed to the virtual NICs (I think there is a concept on Proxmox), does a virtual NIC give you seperate IP address for each VM instance.
Or would it be a better solution to get a dual-port NIC card and map/bridge the traffic from each NIC.
Sorry not sure about the terminology I'm using is correct here.
Wonder if I can get any opinions from anyone with more experiance on a small self-hosted web hosting solution I’m imminently looking to setup.
Networking
Modem -> PFsense Box -> Managed Switch configured with Two VLANS (1 VLAN id(101) for Home LAN, 1 VLAN dedicated (id 901)for exposing the Proxmox Box) -> Proxmox Box
VMs On Proxmox
I only require two VM’s on the Proxmox box:
- Windows Server 2019 – Only hosts 2 sites
- WHM/cPanel- will host 10 sites and more to come
This is where I get more confused, the PfSense routed web traffic to the Proxmox box is this routed to the virtual NICs (I think there is a concept on Proxmox), does a virtual NIC give you seperate IP address for each VM instance.
- Is this understanding following roughly correct for PFSense configuration? A possible way to go about the setup, PFSense would be configured so all web traffic port HTTP 80, HTTPS 443 gets routed to the VLAN 901, to the Proxmox box virtual IP address for the WHM/cPanel VM instance.
- And then setup two specific domain name pattern match PFSense rules for for the 2 sites to route to the Windows Server VM instance virtual NIC.
Or would it be a better solution to get a dual-port NIC card and map/bridge the traffic from each NIC.
Sorry not sure about the terminology I'm using is correct here.
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