[TriLUG] Server design help request

[Jason Tower]

as long as you don't run X you could probably do this with pentium 166. 
  if possible, stick as much ram in the box as you can, that usually has 
far more impact on performance than cpu horsepower.  if you can, i'd 
suggest using a seperate machine for firewall/router/nat/dhcp in the 
interest of security, ease of setup and administration, and 
troubleshooting.  the file/mail/web services can easily run on one 
modest box, especially if traffic is fairly low.  for easy setup it's 
hard to beat smoothwall or ipcop, both can run on very low end boxes 
(like a pentium 90 w/ 32mb ram and a 1gb disk).  that will free up your 
main server for other duties.

for good DNS service you might also consider easydns, they offer DNS 
hosting and support dynamic DNS updates.

jason

Mike Mueller wrote:
> Is it possible to host  1 or more domains with very little traffic, an 
> experimental mail list, a mail server, file and printer sharing, and an 
> Internet gateway using a cable modem and a single AMD Duron 700Mhz with 128MB 
> and 10G disk (shared file system requirements are small)?  What are the risks 
> with this approach?  If more boxes were available, how would the services be 
> split up?
> 
> All of this came together when I was reading the dynamic IP thread and went 
> to dyndns.org and read about their Custom DNS service.  The FAQ for Custom 
> DNS claims that their service will route traffic for your domain to your 
> dynamic IP, and that all the DNS maintenance tools they provide still apply.  
> Is anybody on the list using the Custom DNS service?
> 
> Thanks,