From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 23:11:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA27959 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 23:11:30 -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 XAA27932 Thu, 4 Apr 1996 23:11:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0u55fx-0008tqC; Thu, 4 Apr 96 23:11 PST Message-Id: From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Subject: Re: Recommendation Needed for server setup To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 23:11:17 -0800 (PST) Cc: joel@quicklink.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Dillon" at Apr 4, 96 07:19:54 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 > full news feeds demand a Pentium, other stuff works fine on a 486. I'm running a full newsfeed on a 486/66 and it's mostly idle. It's the disk speed that makes the most difference. I would probably benefit from upgrading to something I could put more memory in, particularly during expires. If I had dozens or hundreds of clients, that would be required, and a bigger cpu too, probably. > There is only one email program for ISP's, namely sendmail. Unless you're concerned about security, then you run smail :-) > Learn to build your own tools using PERL, > it's a swiss-army knife. Absolutely critical! -- 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.