From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Jan 30 14:16:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6770F37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:16:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.stonline.sk (mta-in1.stonline.sk [213.81.152.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6C143F3F for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sk@dreamtime.net) Received: from IBMTHINKPAD (telecom-213-128-3.telecom.sk [213.81.128.3]) by smtp1.stonline.sk (STOnline ESMTP Server) with ESMTP id <0H9J003VTSHAS7@smtp1.stonline.sk> for freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:15:11 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:16:35 +0100 From: Stephen Karrington Subject: Freebsd Server farm In-reply-to: <200301302148.h0ULm4uF090129@apollo.backplane.com> To: 'Matthew Dillon' , 'Dale Woolridge' Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <00be01c2c8ad$414232b0$228051d5@IBMTHINKPAD> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, We use freebsd OS for all of our existing servers. I need to buy some more. In the past, we have purchased components and had a computer place put them together for us. Consequently, we usually had hardware compatibility problems with freebsd which drives me crazy. Expecially the latest dual processor issue that seems to have not gotten resolved over the past few months in this forum. So our latest server is still a one chip instead of dual chip server. This time, I prefer not to have these problems! Instead of buying one fat big server, I would like to buy a bunch of thin ones. We need to split out certain functions among multiple servers. The following three items need to be spread over a few servers each. 1. Sending email. This is only about sending emails out using postfix. And dealing with bouncebacks. 2. http posts to our tracking server. This is for our C program that tracks everything. 3. Database backend - mysql. This is for storing data for our systems. Where many people access and use at once. Total number of boxes about 10. 4 for #1, 3 each for #2 and #3 above. Can someone who has experience in putting together a server farm and has done this before refer us to a place where we can get what we are looking for at a good price? We have our own rack, Cisco 24 port switch and can hook this right into it. To add extra capacity I would like to be able to purchase more of the same exact boxes in and plug them in. Server is located in Vienna, Virginia. Prefer to have the freebsd OS and libraries installed for us onto each server. We can provide the specs on configuration if needed. Thanks. Sincerely, Stephen Karrington Dreamtime.net Inc. http://www.dreamtime.net http://www.emailblaster.us Corporate Office 8 Corporate Park, Suite 125 Irvine, CA. 92606-5192 Voice - 877-203-9308 Dreamtime is your global choice for enterprise wide sales channel technology. Our niche is viral and email marketing services, leads generation and direct sales channel automation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message