Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 20:23:56 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au> Cc: root@bmccane.uit.net (Wm Brian McCane), isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Web Hosting Message-ID: <199708300323.UAA06089@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 30 Aug 97 12:52:58 -0000. <199708301252.MAA20732@mother.sneaker.net.au>
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>| 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.
Specifically, if you are going to be serving any files, doing anything
disk-intensive, or expect to be swapping to disk, you should
definitely consider going completely SCSI. This will give you better
concurrent processing. I.e. things won't get jerky or freeze up while
intense disk accesses are in progress.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix.
Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C.
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