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I own 5 web servers in a solo facility and I am looking into the idea of putting my own firewall in place for just my servers. I have been looking at Hotbrick, SonicWall, and Fortigate solutions. The problem is I am not sure which one will fill my needs. I don't want to spend more money than I have to obviously. I would like to spend no more than $2500ish if possible. Our network traffic is on average 7 - 10 mbps and as I said I have 5 servers but will slowly add more. I mostly want to be able to block certain IPs and ports etc. any model number suggestions etc would be helpful

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Watchguard Firefox X550e ($1000-$1500)
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/specs.aspx?EDC=973433

Cisco ASA 5505 ($500-$800)(might need to upgrade to a 5510 if your going to have more then 10,000 concurrent connections, the 5510 is about $2500-$3000)
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/d [...] DC=1058198

I have not used any sonicwall products but you mentioned it, reading a bit the soincwall pro 2040 looks pretty decent (~$1500)
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/specs.aspx?EDC=583764

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Thank you I will check these out.


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