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El Nino <mailto:adaptit@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Dear friends,i'm planning on buying a server for running gentoo(will |
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> b our 1st gentoo server) with a mail+dns server(<1000mails/per |
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> day).i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron & around 1GB ram. has |
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> anyone built a server recently that worked?1) can anyone give me a |
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> suggestions for a good(cost-effective) server(good with gentoo). |
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Mailservers are generally I/O bound. So getting fast disks will help. |
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Spam checking is generally CPU bound. So getting fast CPUs will help. |
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You should design your mail server around peak usage rate, say max number of emails per hour, instead of per day. |
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That being said, <1000 mails/day is really low volume and any modern and not-so-modern (meaning PIII) server can do the job without breaking a sweat. No need to spend big $$$ for such a volume. |
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HTH |
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Eray |
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