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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:38:14 +0100
From:      Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl>
To:        Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD amd64 List <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Server motherboard recommendation?
Message-ID:  <41C0D8F6.9080609@withagen.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20041212194027.W22945@zoraida.natserv.net>
References:  <20041212175907.L22745@zoraida.natserv.net> <41BCE0BF.40403@jrv.org> <20041212194027.W22945@zoraida.natserv.net>

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Francisco Reyes wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> 
>> "Small server" means different things to different people.
> 
> 
> You are totally right.
> The machine will be serving 5 domains, about 150 email addresses running 
> Apache, postfix, PHP, Allohamail and Cyrus IMAP.

 From my humble experience as an ISP:
Unless these are rather heavy loaded domains, with seriously large 
webpages and/or people sending large amounts of mail, this could be 
amply serviced by just anything above a 386 with 64mb :)

So I guess any answer to this question is about right.

Getting it in 1U with a seperate card requires somewhat more thought 
since you'd want a video-chipset onboard to save on extra slots.

Lik eother suggested, I too have good experience with Tyan stuff. 
Although I have a desktop Tiger K8W S275, which would not fit the 1U 
requirement.

--WjW



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