From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 29 09:59:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23053 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:59:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.easystreet.com (easystreet.com [206.26.36.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23047 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:59:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ctapang@easystreet.com) Received: from apex (dial-35-227.easystreet.com [206.103.35.227]) by mail.easystreet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA04928 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:59:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <003401be036e$086894b0$0d787880@apex> From: "Carlos C. Tapang" To: Subject: Plugging a FreeBSD server to the net: need advice Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:57:52 -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 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, I'm about ready to plug a server to the net. Frankly, I was leaning on using Windows NT for some time, but now I am convinced that FreeBSD is a much better choice. (I just read Yahoo's testimonial on FreeBSD.) I now need to decide on which version of FreeBSD to use. Should I go with 2.2.7 or 3.0. Is 3.0 ready for it? The server will be a web, mail, and ftp server. Will I get double mileage with having a 2-processor SMP system? Is FreeBSD.ORG behind a firewall? If it's not, then my server probably does not need to be behind a firewall. (I am paranoid about malignant attacks, but if FreeBSD.ORG can survive, so should my server.) Are DTP raid controllers really as good as they're cracked up to be? Do I really need RAID, or should a regular SCSI drive/controller do as well? My feeling is that regular SCSI drives should be reliable enough for my purposes. I would like my server to be a mirror site for FreeBSD-current downloads. My server will plug to the net using an SDSL line from GTE (it's cheap!) at 384Kbits/sec, so probably I do not need the processing power for now. I do plan to upgrade to higher bandwidth xDSL later. --Carlos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message