From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 5 11:12:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cliff.i-plus.net (cliff.i-plus.net [209.100.20.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B4A1151C9 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from ARCADIA (arcadia.i-plus.net [209.100.20.198]) by cliff.i-plus.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA10647 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:12:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Troy Settle" To: "FreeBSD ISP" Subject: News Server reccomendations Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:12:33 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message