From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 19 18:15:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA15270 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:15:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tm.net.my (janeway.tm.net.my [202.188.0.155]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA15261 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:15:21 -0800 (PST) From: sweeting@tm.net.my Received: from [202.184.153.110] ([202.184.153.110]) by mail.tm.net.my (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA27540 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:14:37 +0800 (SGT) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:14:37 +0800 (SGT) X-Sender: sweeting@mail.tm.net.my Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: system configuration advice pls. Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have inherited a sysadmin job and what appears to be a pretty inefficient network comprising : DEC 500 Alpha (Digital Unix) - running 3 webservers, DNS for an entire C class, quite heavy mail server. It's struggling with only 64 MB RAM DEC 200 Alpha (Digital Unix) - running only one webserver with 96 MB RAM (don't ask !) DEC 266 Alpha (NT) - running 3 webservers. Pentium P166 (64 MB RAM) - running 2 webservers. IBM RS/600 (running AIX) - running 3 webservers. Now, if i understand this correctly, DNS and Mail should be run by themselves on dedicated machines. Is this correct ? The pentium at least will be switched to FBSD. But what should i run on it ? Would it be best suited for DNS ? Or virtual webservers ? or virtual email servers ? ( Email servers i guess can run on a slower machine and less RAM but more HD space.) I would prefer to use FBSD than Digital Unix even but .... 1. wouldn't digital unix be faster since it is made for their hardware ? 2. does FreeBSD for Alpha run perfectly ? (i had the impresssion that some of the ports etc didn't run as well.... and that the OS lagged the x86 version of FBSD - pls do correct me if an wrong) Thank you very much for your help. chas ps. in general, which is more important - CPU or RAM for DNS and webservers ? just out of a matter of interest, how many small websites (5,000 hits per day each average) would you fit onto a FBSD box with pentium 166 and 128 MB RAM ?