From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 2 12:19: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from satin.sensation.net.au (c16494.brodm1.vic.optusnet.com.au [210.49.158.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB3B37B404 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 12:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by satin.sensation.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA61615 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 05:19:00 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: satin.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 05:19:00 +1000 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two servers In-Reply-To: <20020502125204.G40446-100000@workhorse.imach.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 May 2002, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002, -=|[RattleSn@ke]|=- wrote: > > > I've a (easy) question. > > > > I've two servers, a P1 100Mhz. 43MB RAM and a PII 233Mhz. 128MB RAM. > > > > I want to run a DNS, POP/SMTP, SQL and a WWWserver. > > > > What server(s) should run on what computer?? > > > > I hope that someone has the answer!?!? [...] > I'd put everything on the PII, with perhaps a secondary DNS server on the > other box if you need two servers, and then as your needs grow you'll > likely know what is consuming CPU/resources, and (hopefully) will be able > to afford a faster server. Just a minor tip related to future growth: give your DNS server(s) an IP alias each - no other services on that IP. When you have to move DNS to another server you can simply switch the ethernet or lo0 alias to the new server, without needing to go through the headache of changing name server IP records with your registrar and/or needing to manually redelegate your entire list of hosted domains. Caveat: This tip is useless if your new server is not in the same subnet, and you're unable to static route the DNS IP to the new server. :) Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe - Melbourne, Australia www.camrecord.com www.camdiscover.com www.heyasl.com www.sensationbot.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message