PPTP network for server backend LAN?

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Published on 2010-02-23T19:30:25Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 6:03 UTC
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Here is our problem:

We have several webservers, which should be reached from public. The database servers that store the data for the web apps on those webservers though shall not have a public IP.

So, since I want to be able to connect to the SQL servers using ssh for example, and those servers need to talk with each other, I had this idea:

Internet
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------------------
|                |
Webserver 1      Webserver 2     Database Server
|                |               |
-------------- vLAN --------------
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PPTP
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Workstation (my PC)

My idea was that I can connect to the vLAN using PPTP so that I have access to all servers in that LAN, but the database server remains unvisible to the public.

Is this infrastructure a good idea?

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