Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:23:38 -0600 (CST) From: n8 <vaevictus@socket.net> To: Troy Settle <troy@picus.com> Cc: FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001051319430.30172-100000@nathanm.office.socket.net> In-Reply-To: <FNEMIHIFMKFBMDBKFDPBGEIMCAAA.troy@picus.com>
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News bites. Outsource it. Dnews worked for us for a while... but it became cheaper to get licenses from supernews rather than to hassle with the raid arrays and the bandwidth wasted. We're about that size and only need ~50 licenses the way i remember it working... :) Vae On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Troy Settle wrote: > > Hey all, > > The company I'm working for is currently using D-News on NT for usenet. I'm > a total newbie to the NNTP game, but am under the impression that Dnews > isn't a very good solution for an ISP with 20k users. > > I think I want to reccomend something like Typhoon, and I need to get some > hardware reccomendations, like single or dual CPU system? how much memory? > what kind of storage subsystem? > > I'm thinking a dual cpu box with as much RAM as it will take, and 100+ gig > of RAID or Appliance would be the way to get this started, but I need > validation on this. > > Another option might be to use MFS, and not have any fixed disks in the > machine itself, and use a network applicance for the spool. > > > Thoughts and opinions? > > -Troy > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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