From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 19 19:23:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3EF16A4DE for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:23:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B46343D53 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:23:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so1682048pye for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:23:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:to:subject:from:content-type:mime-version:references:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=EIVeY4pRFcVwt8qqHHxUygcUEs0IXzKJ3KGynacCOpDK97+h2vKAwnB4wEQUoEyRTshOx3SRa6Qdzumsj71JlO/rsuwTOIGA/mJquicX/2rWREOVY47z4KTyUD8SAZ67+U1jBcUHrNtcoPlUvcqZO+9JJ4FceMPRJh/C9hhlxhM= Received: by 10.65.126.4 with SMTP id d4mr3590098qbn; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carpet ( [82.93.23.199]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 8sm883591nzn.2006.08.19.12.23.38; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:23:34 +0200 To: "Dearment, Alaric J" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Martin Tournoij" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <27365636F3B5C048B8E8A2BC4C7F1225C01790@email02.bsu.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <27365636F3B5C048B8E8A2BC4C7F1225C01790@email02.bsu.edu> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.01 (FreeBSD) Cc: Subject: Re: Web server requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:23:41 -0000 On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:55:59 +0200, Dearment, Alaric J wrote: > I'm the on-line editor of expo, Ball State University's student-run > magazine. We're reviving our Web site, and I've been thinking seriously > about running it off a FreeBSD-based server. However, I'm not sure what > kinds of system requirements I'll have. > > The school has roughly 20,000 students and the magazine comes out once a > semester. If I were to guess, I'd say we'll be having 100 people on the > server at once on busy days, most of whom will be on campus. In addition > to articles, the server will probably offer a 10- to 15-minute video > and/or podcast to go with the cover story. Also, the server will also be > used as a mail server and file server, though file services will likely > only be needed for a couple of days each semester and E-mail accounts > will only be for staff to do things such as receive feedback on articles > and so forth. > > What sorts of requirements would such a server need as far as processor, > RAM and HD are concerned, assuming it would be running on FreeBSD? Would > a machine with 512M of RAM, a 140G HD and 1.2GHz processor work? > That will probably be enough. The Slackware site runs on a PIII 600 with 512MB RAM, http://www.slackware.org/about/