From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 5 12: 2:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail-smtp.socket.net (mail-smtp.socket.net [216.106.1.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207011544F for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:01:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vaevictus@socket.net) Received: from socket.net ([216.106.1.7]) by mail-smtp.socket.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA24459 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:59:19 -0600 Received: from nathanm.office.socket.net ([216.106.0.22]) by socket.net ; Wed, 05 Jan 2000 12:58:37 -0600 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:23:38 -0600 (CST) From: n8 X-Sender: vaevictus@nathanm.office.socket.net To: Troy Settle Cc: FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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