From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 25 10:17:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13818 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA13811 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA19296; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:17:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:17:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson To: Rod Ebrahimi cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Servers and Network In-Reply-To: <199707250915.CAA16119@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 Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Rod Ebrahimi wrote: > ...main focus is WWW,FTP,TELNET. This is what I was looking at: > > Main Server: Dual PPro200, 256MB, Raid5 4.0gig scsi drives, 9" mono VGA > monitor > > ... is the main server overkill for WWW,FTP,TELNET? How many hundreds of users were you going to have using it simultaneously? I ran a 1500 user ISP on basically one 486/66 with 64 MB of RAM for quite some time. A little while after we exceeded 2000 users, 1.5 GB of mail per week, and 9 GB of web traffic per week, we upgraded to a P133 with 96 MB of RAM. This is quite comfortable, and fast. (We do have our news server on a separate machine, a P90.) I don't know how important money is to you, but if it is moderately important, you can probably think of better ways of spending the difference between a 128 MB P166 and a 256 MB dual PPro200. cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.