Re: server advice
Jim McCloskey said:
>
> I'd like to ask your wise advice about setting up a Debian machine
> as a web and mail server for a small university department. I
> maintain a small network (6) of linux machines for the department.
> Cheap hardware, mostly, but they've been wonderfully dependable.
i run several mailservers with cyrus and sendmail. cyrus
is a very fast, very low resource IMAP/POP server. courier
is good too but im not sure if the version in potato(debian
2.2) supports POP3 in a reliable fashion which is the main
reason i went with cyrus a year ago. you can use postfix
or exim or qmail inplace of sendmail if you like.
apache is great as a webserver. a big mistake would be to
use UW IPOP3D or IMAPD to serve mail. it drives load
through the roof, and will reduce the life expectancy of
your server by quite a bit. a quick test of opening an
IMAP inbox with 5,000 messages in UW IMAP compared to
CYRUS (or do it with pop3) will make it painfully
clear.
my smallest server is a p2-200 64MB with a 6GB and an 8GB
drive, it serves about 10 people tops, load is nil, been
running for about 230 days..only reason i don't upgrade
the disks and ram is i dont want to break the uptime :)
nate
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