I am planning to implement a public facing website on SharePoint 2013 platform. Following are the proposed server setup.

1. 2 x Web Front End (WFE) hosting SharePoint 2013 (Load Balanced)
2. 2 x  Search and Application server hosting SharePoint 2013 (Load Balanced)
3. 2 x Application Server (non-SharePoint with separate .NET web applications linked through SharePoint site)
4. 2 x SQL 2012 Servers (Clustered with two instances for SharePoint and .NET applications)

I understand that SQL servers will not require a public IP.  What about other servers?  Also, there is no tight integration between the Application (# 3) and SharePoint servers.  It is just a hyperlink provided on the WFE website.  In this scenario, do we need public IPs for # 2 and 3?

Thanks in ad

Hi,

In your scenario, if your Application servers run apps that need to be accessed from the Internet, these need to be published as well. Your Search And Application hosting SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint app servers) don't need to be connected to the internet.

So all in all, make sure you publish your WFE's (using your load-balancer IP) and your Application (Non-SharePoint, through load-balancer).

The best way to do this is using a reverse proxy to publish your SharePoint and application servers. This means you only need 1 public IP address in this scenario.

If you need more guidance, let us

Thank you Martens!

It will help if you can point me to some links/website that gives more information on the above setup.

Thanks once again!

HI

Is there any firewall between the Internet and internal network?

If yes, you can configure the firewall to NAT the sharepoint servers to internet.