Yes, it is feasible to assign one external IP address to multiple sites using the same port.
Yes, it is feasible to assign one external IP address to multiple sites using the same port.
You're looking to set up multiple small sites using subdomains instead of including ports in the URLs. It sounds like you want domain.com to point to Server One and service.domain.com to go to Server Two. Since you only have one public IP address, all traffic needs to be directed to a single external destination before being routed internally. The key here is whether your network setup allows for multiple destinations to be handled from a single IP. If it's possible with DNS routing and load balancing, that would work. If not, you might need a router or load balancer to manage the traffic distribution. Your idea of using a router like Dream Machine Pro could help streamline this process.
You'd require a load balancer. Kemp LoadMaster supports porting several servers via HTTPS, and it's completely free. https://freeloadbalancer.com/
A load balancer is what you're referring to, or you can use virtual hosts with pass-through. Both Apache and IIS work well with it—they all go through one server before sending traffic to another. Don't bother asking how to set it up; it gets complicated. My top pick is F5, but that's just my opinion.
ok, I have it running as a virtual appliance and I can see connections in statistics under virtual services, but nothing is making real servers. Right now I have no content filters applied, as this is all new I just want to get data flowing through the then get it to start filtering. Would you have any insight on what might be going on?
You're asking about what's actually running on real servers. Real servers are the physical machines themselves. When you assign a virtual IP, you must connect your servers to that IP.
I overlooked two small words, sorry about that. No traffic reaches the actual servers. I can observe the links on the virtual services, but it seems nothing gets through to the real server and it becomes unreachable. If I configure port forwarding for 80 and 443 directly to the real server, it works again, so my guess is there’s an issue with the ladmaster settings. Since I’m new to this software, I don’t even know where to begin.
Also experiencing problems with no links connecting to the HTTP page—appears to go to HTTPS instead or not reaching it at all.