Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:40:04 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk> To: "Abdullah Bin Hamad." <arabian@nac.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs SunOS/Solaris Message-ID: <37CBE944.B7E7102@eclipse.net.uk> References: <99082820345500.02576@bopbsd.trison.edu> <37C88EA1.3E236777@gorean.org> <008601bef1c0$bc1721c0$191e0285@net.qa.qatar.net.qa>
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> Why someone would choose FreeDSD for his ISP instead of SunOS/Solaris ? Price, access to source code, speed, stability, and of course Chuck. :-) > Should the ISP run the mail server on differnet machine, and named on > saprate machine ..etc? To take this specific example, the mail server should probably be running a caching named to reduce ethernet traffic, even if it's not directly used by customers. In general, splitting the services up like this is a good idea, both to reduce the impact if the box fails and to make tracking down problems easier. Using a free OS makes this job a lot easier since you aren't paying one license per machine. I would much prefer to run core services on a larger number of less well specced machines than to run many services on one or two fast machines. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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