Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:57:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: Willow <willow@tds.edu> Cc: Deepwell Internet <freebsd@deepwell.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Consolidate or isolate? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981106154923.23064A-100000@electric.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061405140.18373-100000@zeus.tds.edu>
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We run separate servers here... 1 Server = DNS/NIS (used to run Radius also until we got out of Dialup services) 1 Server = Mail/Secondary DNS 1 Server = WWW 1 Server = Shell accounts Works quite well and separates the load nicely. Plus, we don't have to make each of the machines extremely powerful. Most of our machines are still running the older Cyrix 6x86's, non MMX and we show no load on the servers. The big thing is that there is no one single point of failure with the multiple server idea. If mail goes down, you still have all the other services. Although, if you can't afford that much hardware, the one box for everything is a good start. We started out with 2 servers and then expanded little by little. We now have over 10 servers running for our services and a couple co-locates, and the multiple server idea has worked extremely well. ______________________________________________________________ -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-9696 TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 835-2133 http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Willow wrote: > We were thinking about having the following: > > shell server > smtp/pop mail server > dns/radius server > web/ftp server > > Maybe a seperate server for SSL. > > That should help "spread" the load around to all that machines. > -- > willow@tds.edu > -- > > On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Deepwell Internet wrote: > > > We run FreeBSD almost exclusively here and we have divided into two camps > > of thought. We're running all the standard services that every other ISP > > runs; DNS, SMTP/pop3, webserver, SSL webserver, shell server, radius and > > probably a few others that aren't popping into my head. > > > > Basically, we are divided here. Some people think that we should maintain > > a machine for DNS, a separate Radius server, a separate mail server...yadda > > yadda yadda. The other group says we should consolidate and throw > > DNS/Radius on one machine and work towards consolidating everything towards > > a few core machines. Obviously we'd have to watch the loads and not throw > > our large mail server and a large webserver together. And allowing shell > > accounts on the primary webserver or radius server seems a little risky. > > > > Can you all give me your input. > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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