Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:37:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu> To: "Richie P. Bandales" <richieb@unet.net.ph> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: news server Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960807212923.13334B-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <320A2454.31D@unet.net.ph>
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On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Richie P. Bandales wrote: > i have installed a FreeBSD 2.1.5-Release successfully and i want to > make it as a news server. i am new to FreeBSD world and i am lost for > the moment so as where to start. i have 100MHz Pentium 6 PC with PCI bus > and 32MB of memory and 2 x 1.2GB Quantum Fireball hard disks. is this > enough to run a news server? if so please give me the right procedures > and instructions as to what should i take. if anyone out there have some > suggestions, pls i would be very glad to hear it. > thanks in advance and let's enjoy freebsd as its best First of all, ask yourself these 2 questions: 1. Do I have enough bandwidth for running a news server. A full news feed will not fit down a 56k. However, I believe that 128k is enough, but pushing it. T1 or greater is ideal. 2. How long do I want to keep articles on my server? For a full news feed, you should plan on having 1 GB of articles per day. So of you want to keep your news for 12 days, 12 GB is recommended. Your machine should be plenty fast enough if you are just running the average ISP operation. As for installation procedures, I'm not exactly sure. Maybe check the online mail archive. Hope that helps! - Justin J. Ashworth -- CS Student - Montana State University --- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth
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