From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 31 7:38:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from proteus.eclipse.net.uk (proteus.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB5F14E6D; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:38:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@eclipse.net.uk) Received: from eclipse.net.uk (elara.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.31]) by proteus.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB849B12; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:37:44 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37CBE944.B7E7102@eclipse.net.uk> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:40:04 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: Eclipse Networking Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Abdullah Bin Hamad." Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs SunOS/Solaris References: <99082820345500.02576@bopbsd.trison.edu> <37C88EA1.3E236777@gorean.org> <008601bef1c0$bc1721c0$191e0285@net.qa.qatar.net.qa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Why someone would choose FreeDSD for his ISP instead of SunOS/Solaris ? Price, access to source code, speed, stability, and of course Chuck. :-) > Should the ISP run the mail server on differnet machine, and named on > saprate machine ..etc? To take this specific example, the mail server should probably be running a caching named to reduce ethernet traffic, even if it's not directly used by customers. In general, splitting the services up like this is a good idea, both to reduce the impact if the box fails and to make tracking down problems easier. Using a free OS makes this job a lot easier since you aren't paying one license per machine. I would much prefer to run core services on a larger number of less well specced machines than to run many services on one or two fast machines. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message