| Stephen Gran on Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:18:03 -0400 |
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Hello all, I am (not right now, but within the next couple of months) looking to replace two x86 boxes that handle web and mail serving with something else. I am writing because the 'something else' has not particularly been decided yet. My requirements are: basically noiseless (no case fans if possible) small footprint (smaller the better) low heat emission low power consumption (hopefully) low price speed is of secondary concern to all of these, as both boxes in place right now aren't being pushed too hard - I'm using an old PII as the mail server, and it's load average never goes above 0.3 or so. Disk speed may be more important than processor speed, although even that isn't that important - on a busy day, the mail server might handle 2000 messages or so (OK, call it 4000, because of the doubling caused by spamassassin). I have seen some things that piqued my interest, but haven't actually worked with any of them in a production environment, so I was looking for recommendations. I would like it if these boxes could run linux - it would make the transition fairly seamless for me - but if I have to switch to one of the *BSD's, that wouldn't be a big deal either. Thanks in advance, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | It is impossible to make anything | | steve@lobefin.net | foolproof because fools are so | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | ingenious. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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