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Date:      Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:35:54 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>
To:        empey@integral.on.ca
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: advice on machone choice for servers
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970424103553.00a6af40@mixcom.com>

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At 12:58 AM 4/23/97 +0500, David Empey wrote:
>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.

Just to give an example at the more extreme end.  We had a 486/66 with 32Mb
and about 90 web sites pushing 7000 hits per hour, which was the average,
so it would peak at around 20-25K hits per hour.  About 4-8Mb memory free
and a load of about .70 at peak times.

I'd say go for 16Mb ram.  Never hurts to have a bit more.


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Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator
jeff@mixcom.net

MIX Communications
Serving the Internet since 1990



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