Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 23:11:17 -0800 (PST) From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Cc: joel@quicklink.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation Needed for server setup Message-ID: <m0u55fx-0008tqC@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960404190328.17555G-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Apr 4, 96 07:19:54 pm
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> full news feeds demand a Pentium, other stuff works fine on a 486. I'm running a full newsfeed on a 486/66 and it's mostly idle. It's the disk speed that makes the most difference. I would probably benefit from upgrading to something I could put more memory in, particularly during expires. If I had dozens or hundreds of clients, that would be required, and a bigger cpu too, probably. > There is only one email program for ISP's, namely sendmail. Unless you're concerned about security, then you run smail :-) > Learn to build your own tools using PERL, > it's a swiss-army knife. Absolutely critical! -- Alan Batie ______ We're Starfleet officers: batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Weird is part of the job. +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Captain Janeway DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.
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