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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:24:04 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > What hardware is recommended?
> 
> For a full feed I would suggest 2*4*4 SCSI drives spread over two fast
> controllers.
> 
> That should be running on a P128 with 198MB of RAM, and linked to the net
> with a minimum of T1.

I don't suppose some of you ISP folks would consider taking a walk on
the wild side with SGML and begin writing up a little "ISP's Guide to
FreeBSD", much as Paul Vixie has done for BSDI?  The principle author
could even be forgiven for putting in a little paragraph of
advertising at the end ("This guide brought to you courtesy of
Internotworks, providers of fine internet services to the greater
Moosebreath, Wisconsin region and general all-around network gurus.")

In the highly competetive world of ISPs, a plug like that replicated
onto dozens of WEB servers around the world certainly couldn't
hurt. :-)

Plug or no plug, it would also be a very very useful thing to have if
you guys don't want to be stuck answering the same-old "{Can, How do}
I use FreeBSD in implementing a {WEB server, NNTP server, dialin
server, IP router, space heater}" from now until death by old age.

FreeBSD's popularity seems to be growing steadily, with no immediate
end in sight, and these questions are only going to multiply.  I'd
hope that a more comprehensive document which users could simply be
pointed at in a one-line URL reply could eventually substitute for the
brute-force technique of answering these questions repetitively (or
worse, not at all!).

I don't mind writing up my hardware tips (http://www.freebsd.org/hw.html),
but when it comes time to document how to set up a serious application
box, that's where your collective experience far exceeds mine.  I just
don't have the time to be a developer and an ISP both. :-)

					Jordan