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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:709 comp.os.linux.networking:11131 Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!agate!news.mindlink.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!cynic.portal.ca!curt From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: optimal system for WWW server? Date: 9 Aug 1995 16:13:06 GMT Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <40amqi$igs@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <ERICDING.95Jul28142614@gaston.mit.edu> <3vbp0p$ddo@inews.sc.intel.com> <DD03C3.IqH@info.swan.ac.uk> <408rmp$fbu@news4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca In article <408rmp$fbu@news4.digex.net>, Trident Systems <trident@access2.digex.net> wrote: >Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote: > >: Grossout way to spend too much money. Web server is where to put your >: surplus 486 boxes. > >We're running out Web server from a 486SX and it works just fine for 50+ >connections a day (not great but decent considering we didn't spend much >on it). Fifty? You could do that quite happily on a 386SX16. I've got a 486/66 with 8MB of RAM quite happily running name services, e-mail (SMTP and POP) a web server, and various other services. It easily deals with 3000-4000 hits per day (which is a pretty low load, IMHO). NetBSD will actually run quite nicely on very low-end machines except that it wants a fair amount of memory. 8MB is the minimum, and even without a GUI, if you want more than a single-user workstation you probably want 16MB. And of course memory is the most expensive bloody thing on the planet these days... cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.