From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 5 21:10:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.fortress.org (guardian-ext.fortress.org [199.202.137.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21EA615575 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:10:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@pubnix.net) Received: from pubnix.net (guardian.fortress.org [198.168.253.52]) by guardian.fortress.org (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA92083; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:10:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from andrew@pubnix.net) Message-ID: <387423CC.CA150435@pubnix.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:10:37 -0500 From: Andrew Organization: PubNIX Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kaczkowski Cc: "Robert J. Adams" , "Gary D. Margiotta" , Troy Settle , FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) References: <02b301bf57dc$d0ffa620$3102fbd1@siscom.net> <3874221E.DBD45CDB@inc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > "Robert J. Adams" wrote: > > > > Gary, > > > > Not sure if I agree with you. With the size of news today (we bring in about > > 81-90G/day) it would take a LOT of 9gig drives to store it for a week. We > > have been using 50gig barracudas (about 24 per server, soon to be 32) in a > > RAID 0+1 setup. Yea, we loose half the space w/ this setup due to the raid, > > but it's lightening fast and fully redundant. I'm just waiting for IBM to > > start shipping the damn 72G drives.. then again.. we kinda go crazy with > > news. > > Personally I'm waiting for everyone to stop passing the > alt.binaries.warez.* groups, > doing that alone would probably drop news traffic by 70%... > > All in favor say AYE! I don't think that will solve the problem, look at alt.binaries.pictures as more the sources of the traffic. I decided to nuke our news server and outsource news to commercial news provider and am using nntpcache instead. What a difference!!! Bandwidth galore and way less load on the system! Definately worth it! > > > :) > > -- > Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom IDD > steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 > http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax > > 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