From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 29 19:54:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14148 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 19:54:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (akm@mother.sneaker.net.au [203.30.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA14135 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 19:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20732; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:52:59 GMT From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199708301252.MAA20732@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: Web Hosting To: root@bmccane.uit.net (Wm Brian McCane) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 12:52:58 +0000 () Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199708292213.RAA09383@bmccane.uit.net> from "Wm Brian McCane" at Aug 29, 97 05:13:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk +-----[ Wm Brian McCane ]------------------------------ | | 28.8). Would a pentium 75, with 24Meg of RAM, and 3 Ultra-IDE hard drives be | sufficient to host a 4-port card with Dynamic IP? What I am basically trying | to do is setup a light load, private ISP for my customers in case you didn't | already notice. I run a clapped out VESA Pentium 66 16Meg Ram, with an 16 port ISA cyclades board, runs just fine (as a terminal server/ secondary Name server/internal ftp site). All modems are 33.6K. The load rarely gets above 0 :-) Serving web stuff is a tad different, depending on the web server you picked and the content of the sites, you might want a bit more grunt or some better I/O devices. -- ,-_|\ SneakerNet | Andrew Milton | GSM: +61(41)6 022 411 / \ P.O. Box 154 | akm@sneaker.net.au | Fax: +61(2) 9746 8233 \_,-._/ N Strathfield +--+----------------------+---+ Ph: +61(2) 9746 8233 v NSW 2137 | Low cost Internet Solutions |