Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:50:38 +0100
From:      Andy Cowan <andyc@waverider.net.uk>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: advice on machone choice for servers
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970423135038.0081cbd0@waverider.net.uk>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 00:58 23/04/97 +0500, you wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>I'm hoping to pick the brains of some more experienced freeBSD users. 
>I'd like to set up a mail server (approx. 250 messages per day at 
>present) and a web server (100 hits a day approx., rarely more than 2 
>at the same time) on an older 486/66 with 8MB RAM under freeBSD.  Is 
>this combination likely to fly?  Any advice welcome, with thanks.
>

Absolutley. We have a 486-50 here with 8Mb doing more than that without any
real problems. Handling around 1000 mail messages a day, lightly loaded web
server and secondary DNS for around 70 domains.

Easy :-)

Andy


Andy Cowan			               Tel: 01564 795888
Technical Director		      	        Fax: 01564 795177
Wave Rider Internet plc	          	http://www.waverider.co.uk
-------------------------------------------------------------------




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3.0.32.19970423135038.0081cbd0>