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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:9800 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:12762 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3412 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Message-ID: <id.GBTL1.YN9@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3uj157$lpr@lonepeak.wasatch.com> <id.0ASL1.EQ9@nmti.com> <1995Jul21.123945.15209@friend.kastle.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 18:51:25 GMT Lines: 43 In article <1995Jul21.123945.15209@friend.kastle.com>, Richard Krehbiel <rich@kastle.com> wrote: > peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: > >In article <3uj157$lpr@lonepeak.wasatch.com>, > >Bob Hauck <bobh@wasatch.com> wrote: > >> And how much does a "big" PC cost? Well, remember that you don't need > >> a big monitor, or sound, or fancy video in a terminal server. You can > >> get a suitable Pentium or 486/100 for under $2000 or so without trying > >> too hard. Ok, throw in some high-end disk drives and 32 MB of RAM and > >> the cost goes up to $3500. > >It's less than that. > >Why do you need lots of RAM and a big disk drive to run PPP? > >The biggest cost may well be the serial ports. > It seems to me that any decent ISP *would* have big disks, for staging > news and mail delivery at least, and perhaps also ftp archives and web > pages. I wouldn't put that on the same box as my PPP server, regardless of what the hardware and software was. > But then, a gig is about $300 these days, Only on very big or shoddy drives. A 1GB SCSI costs more like $500. > so maybe your definition of "big" is larger than mine. We're not an ISP, we're a software development house. Between our four servers we have at least 150 GB of DASD. Our ISP's main server has over 12GB, 4GB of which are dedicated to news and another 4GB to FTP, and the rest pretty much split between /var and web. So, yeh. 1GB isn't really that big, and I'd say the stock 400MB IDE drive you get in the $2000 PC would be more than ample so why spend the extra bucks for a drive that's going to be empty anyway? -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"