From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 21:38:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E11B1065681 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:38:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from thenetnow.com (thenetnow.com [69.90.69.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C5F8FC24 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from hpeel.ody.ca ([216.240.12.2] helo=GRANT) by constellation.thenetnow.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1KAtjf-000Ol6-2n for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:38:03 -0400 Message-ID: <69A7C016EF6A4083AFEABFD81B11CC93@GRANT> From: "Grant Peel" To: Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:38:00 -0400 Organization: The Net Now MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 Subject: Server Questions. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:38:04 -0000 Hi all, Two questions for the Web hosting types out there: 1. Does anyone use Celeron based nameservers? (i.e. I have two brand new Dell PE R200s and was considering using them as ns1 and ns2. What version of FBSD would one use (I am thinking 6.3 Rel, but us there any compelling reason to use 7.0? 2. What machine type would you suggest for Intel Xenon Duel Core? AMD or i386? Again, is there any real benifit to moving to 7.0 from a processor standpoint? -Grant