From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 24 08:33:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA11845 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 08:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA11839 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 08:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id KAA16631; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:33:00 -0500 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma016611; Thu Apr 24 15:32:33 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970424103553.00a6af40@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:35:54 -0500 To: empey@integral.on.ca From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: advice on machone choice for servers Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990