From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 18 09:39:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00905 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scruz.net (nic.scruz.net [165.227.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00897 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover3 by scruz.net (8.7.3/1.34) id JAA18108; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <31EE68D4.7142@pinpt.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:39:48 -0700 From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Organization: PinPoint Software Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty CC: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions? References: <199607180116.SAA02091@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty wrote: > We are not debating how much FreeBSD costs we know that. The question > is how much does it cost to setup an NT ISP server? > > ISP server having NFS, POP Mail, NFS, http server, ftp... all the nice > basic things we take for granted on a Unix box. Oh, in my favorited, > mrouted 8) 4K for a good computer (P200, 64megs RAM, 4gigs hd etc.). $600 for NT (Single User Server.) Shareware WFTPD ($15), NT Internet Server ($0, though I don't really like it.) SendMail32 ($100 I think ). I don't know about pop. You can get around some of the cost by putting your dial up stuff on a 95 station and get around the multi user issues. (Using the somewhat limited RAS in 95.) For 2K (Software and computer, not including the modem pool it's self.) So for about 7 to 8K you can set of the computers and software (minus the modem pool, phone lines and Internet connectivity. Though those costs would not change from NT or FreeBSD.) Though I would still do it all with FreeBSD. I work with FreeBSD, OS/2, NT Server/Workstation, 95 and WFW here and of all of them the FreeBSD is the easiest to keep on the Internet and the least hassle in general. -Sean -- --- Sean J. Schluntz schluntz@pinpt.com PinPoint Software Corporation http://www.pinpt.com Phone: 408-997-6900 ext. 222 Fax: 408-323-2300