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Re: Web Sites Hosting Hardware & OS
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Dave Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 20 Oct 1999 01:24:36 -0800
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On 19 Oct 99, at 21:48, Mendoza del Pino Cesar Daniel wrote:

> Talking about Web Sites hosting...
> What hardware do you recommend?
> What OS do you recommend? (Windows NT is NOT an option)

  Of the non-Microsoft server OSes for PC hardware[*], OpenBSD seems
to be highly rated for (a) pretty secure configuration "out of the
box", and (b) networking performance.

[*] Whaddaya expect from a list called "PCBUILD"?  Well, okay, for a
server you probably want a multi-CPU (SMP) configuration with plenty
of RAM and SCSI -- possibly RAID -- drive hardware.  You might want
to look into clustering, to provide load balancing and fail-over.
  And whatever you set up, you really should put it behind some kind
of firewall box....

David G

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