Just because I'm curious I would like to see what kind of hardware you are using to run your web and mail server platform. Can you also add how much traffic you are handling with this setup. It would be a nice reference for future visitors to see which hardware can handle which load in practice !
I myself run a standard G4 Mac mini at 1.5 Ghz with 512 Mb of RAM. I hope to expand that soon to 1 Gb.
I host 5 websites for myself and friends, all have database driven content. The most traffic is however generated by the switch blog (300 visitors/day) and this forum (50 vistitors/day). Email traffic is light , 50 emails per day as an average...
As a test server and my trusted desktop I have a Intel Core Duo at 1.66 Ghz.
jstubbs 03 Dec 2006
Well, I would bet the barn, (but not the farm) that I'm on the bottom of the hardware list.
Mail server is a B/W G3 (Rev. 2, 450MHz, GB RAM, 80 GB HD, 10.4.8 )
It does have 2 ethernet cards for LAN/WAN access
Email traffic is moderate, across both interfaces, it would have average ~1200/day. Web access is almost non-existent, except when the sales staff are on the road.
I have not implemented the DSPAM module yet, but top reports that the machine is running 90% idle
I'm a big fan of old hardware, since Macs just seem to keep on running forever. My internal DNS servers are ancient Beige G3s (266 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 8 GB disk, 10.3.9 )
Michael 08 Dec 2006
I'm running main on a G4 DP 450, with 1.125 MB memory.
26 Nov 2006
I myself run a standard G4 Mac mini at 1.5 Ghz with 512 Mb of RAM. I hope to expand that soon to 1 Gb.
I host 5 websites for myself and friends, all have database driven content. The most traffic is however generated by the switch blog (300 visitors/day) and this forum (50 vistitors/day). Email traffic is light , 50 emails per day as an average...
As a test server and my trusted desktop I have a Intel Core Duo at 1.66 Ghz.
03 Dec 2006
Mail server is a B/W G3 (Rev. 2, 450MHz, GB RAM, 80 GB HD, 10.4.8 )
It does have 2 ethernet cards for LAN/WAN access
Email traffic is moderate, across both interfaces, it would have average ~1200/day. Web access is almost non-existent, except when the sales staff are on the road.
I have not implemented the DSPAM module yet, but top reports that the machine is running 90% idle
I'm a big fan of old hardware, since Macs just seem to keep on running forever. My internal DNS servers are ancient Beige G3s (266 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 8 GB disk, 10.3.9 )
08 Dec 2006