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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:12:33 -0500
From:      "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com>
To:        "FreeBSD ISP" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   News Server reccomendations
Message-ID:  <FNEMIHIFMKFBMDBKFDPBGEIMCAAA.troy@picus.com>

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Hey all,

The company I'm working for is currently using D-News on NT for usenet.  I'm
a total newbie to the NNTP game, but am under the impression that Dnews
isn't a very good solution for an ISP with 20k users.

I think I want to reccomend something like Typhoon, and I need to get some
hardware reccomendations, like single or dual CPU system?  how much memory?
what kind of storage subsystem?

I'm thinking a dual cpu box with as much RAM as it will take, and 100+ gig
of RAID or Appliance would be the way to get this started, but I need
validation on this.

Another option might be to use MFS, and not have any fixed disks in the
machine itself, and use a network applicance for the spool.


Thoughts and opinions?

-Troy



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