Best combos

[EvilRick]

I'm going to be doing some self-education and am wanting to use IIS on 2K Server and Apache on a BSD.

Here's what I'm contemplating,

2K Server - IIS - Web/E-mail

Net/FreeBSD - Apache - FTP/IRC (maybe IRC)

Or, should I put the Web/FTP together and put E-mail/IRC together? The FTP will only be for like drivers, documents, stuff like that. Nothing too big, just stuff you don't wanna get in your e-mail. <4MB's on average I'd say.

My final combo is to just have 2K Server w/ IIS as a webserver and do E-mail/FTP/IRC all from BSD/Apache.

Thougths, comments, pros/cons . . .

[Mntsnow]

Well I would say run the Email/ftp/IRC from BSD and go for Web on 2K since your wanting to learn both OS's and there is tons of free email programs that have webmail for *nix

[EvilRick]

Now for the best hardware setup.

I currently have . . .

Tyan Thunderbolt (S1837)
2XPIII550
256MB PC100
2X4.3GB ATA33
4X2.15GB Ultra2 SCSI (RAID0)
20GB Tape Drive

Supermicro P3TDDE
2XPIII933
1GB PC133
2X8.4GB ATA66
2X20GB ATA100 (RAID0)


What I'm thinking of doing . . .

Tyan Thunderbolt (S1837)
2XPIII550
512MB PC100
2.1GB ATA33 (OS)
3.2GB ATA33 (APPS)
4X2.15GB Ultra2 SCSI (RAID0 for DATA)
20GB Tape Drive

Supermicro P3TDDE
2XPIII933
512MB PC133
8.4GB ATA66 (OS/APPS)
4X8.4GB ATA66 (RAID0+1 for DATA)

What d'ya think?

[Mntsnow]

looks good but the only thing I would personally do differently is instead of Raid 0 use Raid 1 (mirroring) for data security that way you can still lose one drive and not lose any of your data/config

but if you will have current backups of all data and configs to tape and or cdr you should be ok.

but if your doing dynamic websites with databases know that you will loose everything that has happened since the last full backup of the database....If databasing run atleast raid 1

[EvilRick]

My thoughts were this, I would use the 2XPIII550 as the webserver, but actually have the db on the 2XPIII933 w/ Mail/FTP/IRC. It's the faster of the two and in time I figure larger/faster drives will be needed. I've got 2 20GB 7200RPM Seagates that I would like to get 2 more. That's why I was going to do the RAID0+1, for the speed+data security. The 2XPIII550 should handle serving up pages just fine. I'm thinking 256MB of RAM will be fine in it until I can get 4X128 PC100's. Right now I've got PC133's, but I don't wanna use 'em. I think I'll leave the 1GB in the 2XPIII933 though.
Won't having the db on a different server speed it up a little?

[Mntsnow]

Yes having the DB on a seperate server will allow it to do the work quicker

[BBA]

You might want to think about compatibility of FTP. If you use a windows machine for the FTP server, everyone will be able to access it with no special ftp client at all other than just simple internet explorer. If you run the FTP from unix, you typically have to set windows file structure compatibility for this to work, or the only clients that will be able to connect are those with dedicated FTP client software (or by using the windows built in dos FTP client).