From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 22 12:13:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20385 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us [207.33.75.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20377 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA14067; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:14:08 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:14:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits To: Rod Ebrahimi cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NT In-Reply-To: <199707221814.LAA13305@netroplex.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Rod Ebrahimi wrote: > I am currently involved in a new Internet Presence Provider establishment As I understand it, "Internet Presence Provider" == Internet Service Provider (ISP) that mostly handles HTTP servers, FTP servers, nameservers and mail relaying, but not ISDN lines and plain modem dialins? > and would really like to use FreeBSD on our systems. One of the reasons we > are skeptical and would rather use NT is mainly setup time Even if FreeBSD required more time to install than NT (it doesn't) the choice of the operating system for a large HTTP or mail server that should be running for many years based on its *INSTALLATION TIME* is the most wrong thing, ISP can make. It's like to choose the car closest to the dealer's office because it takes less time to walk to it. > and expertise, > most of us working on this project do not know much about Unix (only basic > knowledge) but in turn know NT in and out. If you are going to use NT for a large web server, I suggest you to choose other kind of business immediately. > One of my questions is are you > familiar with any people and/or firms that have experts that will help us > through our setup in the Southern California area? If you can't do it yourself using the documentation that is supplied with the system you are not qualified to operate an ISP of any size. It's impossible to be as much clueless about system to need someone's help installing it, and then operate a complex network environment that an ISP requires. You need to permanently hire a sysadmin (even the most clueless one, but who knows how to configure network). There are a lot of people who can do this job, but definitely _not_ as one-time installation. Place an ad in some local newspaper, and they will answer immediately. > Also, if we were to run > FreeBSD as a e-mail server could we easily add/delete users also specifying > their @domain, example: mike@here.com and mike@there.com and > John@overthere.com all on this same box? Yes. -- Alex