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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: Jim Scott <jscott@infoconex.com>
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Subject: Re: Machine Recomendations
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> What kind of machine would you setup to act as a web server that got
> around 500 hits a day? 
> 
> 386? 486? Pentium?  
> 
> What is optimum network card for Free BSD
> 
> How much memory
> 
> Etc..

If you mean 500 hits total per day HTML only(no cgi), a 386 with 16MB of
ram would do. We used to run a 386-40DX FreeBSD server with 16MB of ram,
it served nicely as a DNS and light web server, a few thousand hits per
day, mostly HTML. But even CGI wasnt bad as long as there werent more than
a couple at a time.