From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 19 18:19:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail.acedsl.com [66.114.74.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB66637B405 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 18:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4K1JTff030343; Sun, 19 May 2002 21:19:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 21:21:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: Mikhail Kruk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need advice on hardware for a server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020519211522.D35120-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 May 2002, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > I'm looking for an advice for a server we are going to get. > It will be a pretty busy mailserver. The price should be under 4K. Coming a bit late to the thread. You can check http://ixsystems.net Have a couple of their machines at work. Also had a machine that we had to send for service and they were very good with the repair. Also consider that no matter how good a machine you get, you should have a backup machine where you can move to if the primary dies. You did not mention if this was a SMTP or POP server. I recommend you do a setup like this: 1 - SMTP. Can be a low end box. 2 - Primary POP/Imap 3 - Secondary POP/Imap Try to have 2 and 3 be abble to accept the same disks in a removable format in case your motherboard blows up you can just move the drives. Also consider a few times per day to sync the content from the primary to the secondary. Specially if you are using IMAP. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message