Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:52:10 -0700 From: Randy Smith <randys@amigo.net> To: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT? Server Maint. Practices Message-ID: <200111281755.fASHtk158034@smtp1.amigo.net> In-Reply-To: <20011128163306.GB601@laptop.lambertfam.org> References: <200111281610.fASGAb147780@smtp1.amigo.net> <20011128163306.GB601@laptop.lambertfam.org>
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On Wednesday 28 November 2001 09:33, you wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:07:02AM -0700, Randy Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This isn't neccesarily a tech question but more a point for general > > discussion. > > > > I'm the lone Sys Admin (and company programmer) for a small-ish ISP in > > Colorado and maintain a dozen or so FreeBSD servers. (Email, Web, RADIUS, > > DNS, etc.) I frequently find that I don't have enough time in the course > > of a day to keep track of everything that I need to with the servers. How > > do you all cope with the administrative load as the number of servers go > > up? > > Hire me to help. :-) I really want to move back to Colorado. I wish! I'm underpaid as it is. :-) > > Or do like I was doing on a similar job for CSW Net, work 16 hours per day. My wife would probably kill me. It's bad enough when I get paged on those rare occations when something breaks. > > Have you farmed out your NNTP to someone like Critical Path yet? I was > able to buy reader slots on their server for less money than the time I > was spending admin'ing my own NNTP server. I also saved about 2Mb of > inbound bandwidth in the process. I offloaded NNTP about a year ago. You're right, it was too much hassle. -- Randy Smith Amigo.Net Systems Administrator 1-719-589-6100 x 4185 http://www.amigo.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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