It sounds like you have this older hardware to use, so you can try it and
see. It will likely be a bit under powered for the streaming, and may chug
under the maximum users. With hardware prices at an all time low, you
might want to consider something faster with more capacity, but you can
always move to that later.
-Derek
At 01:55 PM 8/19/2006, Dearment, Alaric J wrote:
I'm the on-line editor of expo, Ball State University's student-run
magazine. We're reviving our Web site, and I've been thinking seriously
about running it off a FreeBSD-based server. However, I'm not sure what
kinds of system requirements I'll have.
The school has roughly 20,000 students and the magazine comes out once a
semester. If I were to guess, I'd say we'll be having 100 people on the
server at once on busy days, most of whom will be on campus. In addition
to articles, the server will probably offer a 10- to 15-minute video
and/or podcast to go with the cover story. Also, the server will also be
used as a mail server and file server, though file services will likely
only be needed for a couple of days each semester and E-mail accounts will
only be for staff to do things such as receive feedback on articles and so
forth.
What sorts of requirements would such a server need as far as processor,
RAM and HD are concerned, assuming it would be running on FreeBSD? Would a
machine with 512M of RAM, a 140G HD and 1.2GHz processor work?
Thank you,
Alaric DeArment
Ball State University
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