From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 19 18:55:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4E416A4DE for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:55:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ajdearment@bsu.edu) Received: from email02.bsu.edu (email02.bsu.edu [147.226.7.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E359D43D45 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:55:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ajdearment@bsu.edu) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:55:59 -0400 Message-ID: <27365636F3B5C048B8E8A2BC4C7F1225C01790@email02.bsu.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Web server requirements Thread-Index: AcbDwRv0aOqBzzEqTk6I0C6LcS6Xdw== From: "Dearment, Alaric J" To: Subject: Web server requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:55:34 -0000 I'm the on-line editor of expo, Ball State University's student-run = magazine. We're reviving our Web site, and I've been thinking seriously = about running it off a FreeBSD-based server. However, I'm not sure what = kinds of system requirements I'll have. The school has roughly 20,000 students and the magazine comes out once a = semester. If I were to guess, I'd say we'll be having 100 people on the = server at once on busy days, most of whom will be on campus. In addition = to articles, the server will probably offer a 10- to 15-minute video = and/or podcast to go with the cover story. Also, the server will also be = used as a mail server and file server, though file services will likely = only be needed for a couple of days each semester and E-mail accounts = will only be for staff to do things such as receive feedback on articles = and so forth. What sorts of requirements would such a server need as far as processor, = RAM and HD are concerned, assuming it would be running on FreeBSD? Would = a machine with 512M of RAM, a 140G HD and 1.2GHz processor work? Thank you, Alaric DeArment Ball State University