From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 12: 8:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.kawartha.com (unix.kawartha.com [204.101.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A27F014D5B for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from support@kawartha.com) Received: from kawartha.com (earth.kawartha.com [204.101.15.14]) by unix.kawartha.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA29586; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:05:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37543082.A6D484AD@kawartha.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 15:12:02 -0400 From: OCD Support X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ilia Chipitsine Cc: Network Administrator , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Hardware References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On the note of cdrom.com here's their config from their website: wcarchive.cdrom.com is an Intel architecture PC machine running the FreeBSD operating system. Its configuration is as follows: Micron NetFRAME 9201 system, consisting of: One 500MHz Intel Pentium-III Xeon CPU w/512K L2 cache 4GB of main memory (16 * 256MB 50ns ECC EDO DIMMs) 1 Adaptec AHA-2940U2W PCI single-channel wide Ultra-2 SCSI controller 2 Adaptec AHA-3940AUW PCI dual-channel wide UltraSCSI controller 1 Intel Pro/100+ PCI 100Mbps Fast Ethernet controller 1 Bay Networks Netgear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet adapter Please visit http://www.micronpc.com/web/walnutcreek.html for more information on the NetFRAME 9201 system. Storage subsystem: 1 Siliconrax SR-485 rack mount peripheral chassis 1 Mylex DAC960SXI SCSI-SCSI 6 channel RAID controller, w/256MB cache 1/2 terabyte of disk storage, consisting of: 18 18GB ultra-wide SCSI drives (IBM) 18 9.1GB ultra-wide SCSI drives (Micropolis, Quantum) 2 9.1GB LVD SCSI 10K RPM disk drives (Seagate Cheetah) 4 Kingston Technologies DS500 "Data Silo" disk cabinets w/hot swap Most of the disk drives are housed in 4 industrial rack mount chassis made by Kingston Technologies. Each drive array is connected to its own SCSI channel on the Mylex RAID controller. The RAID controller is mounted in the Siliconrax cabinet. It has two host channels that are connected to the Adaptec AHA-3940AUW controllers in ultra-wide (40MB/sec) mode. The Seagate Cheetahs are the system disks and are mounted in the main cabinet and connected to the Adaptec AHA-2940U2W controller in 80MB/sec LVD mode. A picture of the machine is available at: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/wcarchive.jpg Our connection to the Internet is via 100Mbps Fast Ethernet that connects to core routers which in turn connect to all of the major interchange points on the Internet via multiple DS3 (45Mbps) and OC3 (155Mbps) circuits. There are plans to upgrade our network connection to Gigabit Ethernet; we just need to find some money to pay for it. Wcarchive is physically located at the CRL Network Operations Center in downtown San Francisco. Each month, more than 10 million people visit wcarchive - sending out to them more than 22 terabytes of files (as of April, 1999), with the only limit being the Internet backbone(s). Wcarchive is the biggest, fastest, busiest public FTP archive in the world. If there is something we don't have online that you think we should, let us know! We are always looking for ways to expand our collection of software archives. One note: We occasionally receive complaints about slow transfers or connection timeouts. These are almost always caused by problems in the Internet and have nothing to do with our server which, despite the large number of users, is far from being overloaded. If you experience problems with your file transfers, please try to investigate the problem with the "traceroute" (Unix) or "tracert" (Windows/95) programs - this can be very useful in determining the cause of the slowness. If the problem appears to be on our end, then please let us know about it and we will bring the issue up with our Internet service provider. Thanks for reading and happy downloading! David Greenman Walnut Creek CDROM For further information, please e-mail ftp@ftp.cdrom.com or see http://www.freebsd.org for FreeBSD information. Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > I think ftp.cdrom.com is running FreeBSD, check what configuration they > have. Also hotmail.com is running. Those folks definetily are not stupid. > Ask them, they have a clue about how to configure servers and what > hardware to buy. > > Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания) > > Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин) > > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Network Administrator wrote: > > > Good Morning, FreeBSD Users > > I'm planning on a small operation for a web server running FreeBSD, I'm > > doing research on what Hardware will give perform the best with FreeBSD. > > I'm sure you guys can help me by telling the setup you guys recommend. > > The purpose of this server is to serve as a reliable and secure web server, > > that can handle a significant amount of daily hits with out me been worry > > that server is running slow. > > > > Any recommendations and suggestion will be highly appreciated. > > > > Lester A. 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