From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 13 14:48:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.pwhsnet.com (adsl-64-172-150-2.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net [64.172.150.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BE737B47B for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:48:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus (patrick@zeus.pwhsnet.com [192.168.0.3]) by apollo.pwhsnet.com (8.12.2/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2DMoSEt020992; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:50:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@pwhsnet.com) Message-ID: <007401c1cae0$e90ca690$0300a8c0@zeus> From: "Patrick Fish" To: "Johnson David" , , References: <20020313212015.3600737B41A@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A Newbie Question Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:46:26 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Perhaps you shuold play around with BSD for a while. I'm 13 years old, going on 14in May, selling shells for eggdrops to webhosting (domains included). If I I could doit, im sure you could. I run FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE on a box that I put together myself, it serves as my LAN gateway and server. Good luck. Patrick Fish - patrick at pwhsnet dot com PWHS Networks - http://www.pwhsnet.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnson David" To: ; Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:20 PM Subject: Re: A Newbie Question > On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:14 pm, Christopher C Parrish wrote: > > This may need to be in the Question list, but, I am a Newbie > > looking for guidance. I am getting ready to start a small > > company. > > If YOU are the one starting this company, then perhaps you need to > think about hiring an admin. Since you used the word "company" > instead of "business", I can only assume that it will be big > enough to hire specialized employees, so make the system's > administrator one of them. If it will be a small business instead > (less than ten employees), then I would recommend hiring a > temporary contractor to set up the network. > > Regardless, as a business owner, you have much more important > things to worry about than your network. You need to worry about > making money. Unless your business is centered around this > network, let other people handle it. You'll make more money > beating the bushes for business than you will spend hiring someone > to get your network set up. > > Of course, you DO want to know a lot about your network. You can't > just offload that responsibility. But try to keep a healthy > perspective. > > > Will these two books be everything I need to setup my LAN > > for everybody to be able to get mail and surf the net from time > > to time? > > Yes...but. Yes these books along with the Handbook on the CD will > be enough to set up a network. But, systems administration is not > a cookbook affair. It is a continual process of education. There > will be specialized topics you will eventually need to know that > just aren't covered in enough detail in general texts. This > information can be found in a variety of sources, many of them > free. > > > If I need to setup multiple servers, which ones will they be and > > why will I need them? The ones I think I will need are a > > firewall and a mail server. > > Frankly, without seeing your business plan, I don't have a clue as > to your needs. For many businesses a single server is more than > adequate. In fact, you might not even NEED any servers. > > > The main reason for me using FreeBSD > > in this application is that I have read that it is Bomb Proof. > > Nothing in this world is bomb proof. FreeBSD is vastly more secure > and stable than Windows, but it isn't perfect. You can't just set > up a FreeBSD network (or any network for that matter) and then > ignore it. If you're concerned about security, then you (or your > admin) will need to keep up with the security advisories. > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBPI/Wv/X9MYyVFIV4EQJrFwCglPUF2sjPbVbwRKTMLDxhIPN+8bsAn1Z1 37NO/OCgkKw1tohgWby0PXLf =SOgr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message