From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 6:12:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.home.nl (mail2.home.nl [213.51.129.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE44037B733 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 06:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from ricin.localnet ([212.120.85.64]) by mail2.home.nl (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010309141042.EBSD311.mail2.home.nl@ricin.localnet>; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:10:42 +0100 From: Danny Pansters To: Kondie Subject: Re: FreeBSD server Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:13:06 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010309110914.03be0140@pop3.malawi.net> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010309110914.03be0140@pop3.malawi.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01030915130600.12281@ricin.localnet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How about a 500MHz or so processor with 256 or 512 Megs of RAM... much=20 more logical than a 1000MHz/128MB combination which is rediculously out=20 of balance IMHO.=20 Also, I'd consider having two disks so you can backup semi-continuously=20 if you like or mirror the data (=3Draid1, my thought would be you'd like=20 to mirror /var on a unix emailserver). People don't like losing their=20 email should your disk crash. Even SCSI disk aren't that expensive=20 anymore. Personally, I have a strong preference for Seagate disks.=20 Anyway, remember what you're going to do is all about I/O, not=20 processor power. If you ask me, 50000 emails a day could even be=20 handled on a relatively old Pentium desktop box. Don't be cheap on your=20 network controller(s). Get 3Com or something. I can't comment on Compaq because I don't use them (oops that implies=20 something already ;-) No seriously, I know that their consumer products=20 are crap but their servers are likely to be a very different story. I=20 know they have a good reputation and that some of their public test=20 server boxes run fBSD. I've only worked with a Compaq server once and=20 had to install Linux on it at work... had some hardware problems then=20 notably with the keyboard(!) Don't be surprised. Bulky motherboards with all sorts of integrated=20 on-board stuff can be like that. I'm currently setting up a server box=20 based on an AOpen DX34plus board. fBSD floppy/cd would not boot at=20 first, I had to turn off the USB controller in its BIOS, default jumper=20 settings for processor type turned out to be wrongly documented, ...=20 stuff like that just happens I reckon. In your case, why not build your=20 own box starting with a nice AOpen oer Asus mother board? If you're new to fBSD, do yourself a favor and first try it on a spare=20 pc or something! Follow the handbook. Then crunch through sendmail.org=20 for your mail setup ... or if you use another MTA look into that one,=20 before putting it up as production machine. And please have it do more=20 than just email, the poor box will become bored and lazy otherwise :-) Best of luck, HTH --=20 Danny Pansters http://www.ricin.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message