From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 23 06:00:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA28528 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from destiny.waverider.co.uk (destiny.waverider.co.uk [194.207.28.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA28515 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zephania.waverider.net.uk (zephania.waverider.net.uk [194.207.28.99]) by destiny.waverider.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id MAA01522 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:56:39 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970423135038.0081cbd0@waverider.net.uk> X-Sender: andyc@waverider.net.uk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:50:38 +0100 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Andy Cowan Subject: Re: advice on machone choice for servers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------