From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 28 22:26:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.aye.net (phoenix.aye.net [206.185.8.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B85714E3C for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:26:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barrett@phoenix.aye.net) Received: (qmail 9417 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Aug 1999 05:18:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Aug 1999 05:18:14 -0000 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 01:18:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Barrett Richardson To: "Abdullah Bin Hamad." Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs SunOS/Solaris In-Reply-To: <008601bef1c0$bc1721c0$191e0285@net.qa.qatar.net.qa> 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 On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Abdullah Bin Hamad. wrote: > Hello folks, > > Why someone would choose FreeDSD for his ISP instead of SunOS/Solaris ? > > An ISP has 14k Dialup users. > > What could FreeBSD provide to an ISP more than SunOS/Solairs ? Self reliance and adaptability. Open Source Systems are becoming increasingly attractive in the ISP arena for a multitude of reasons. If you have proprietary software needs that would have to be weighed in the balance. > > Should the ISP run the mail server on differnet machine, and named on > saprate machine ..etc? That is one route. You can provide reliable services by having multiple low cost servers as opposed to having a monster Solaris box. A well thought out architecture will scale nicely to a large user base. All services on a single box provides centralized management, but a single problematic service can affect services across the board. There is a point at which you cannot add more tasks to single box; that point is becoming more easily reached these days. > > Could someone who was using SunOS/Solaris give me more details. > > Your help is appreicated. > > -Arabian aka Abdullah > > > > 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