From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 22:54:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA25919 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 22:54:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA25892 Thu, 4 Apr 1996 22:54:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0u55PM-0008sKC; Thu, 4 Apr 96 22:54 PST Message-Id: From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Subject: Re: Recommendation Needed for server setup To: joel@quicklink.com (Joel Kelmenson) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 22:54:08 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9604041813.AA23448@www> from "Joel Kelmenson" at Apr 4, 96 01:16:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It would be great to hear some recommendations on good setup > for a web and news server. I have one system that I would like > to use. It is a P90 PCI, 8mb, 720mb ide drive. Well, add another 24Meg of RAM and an Ethernet, and you have a great web server --- one that will handle a couple of T1's worth of traffic easily with FreeBSD and Apache. As others have mentioned however, if you want to run news on it, switch to SCSI and get as many of the fastest medium-to-large sized disks as you can afford. -- Alan Batie ______ We're Starfleet officers: batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Weird is part of the job. +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Captain Janeway DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.