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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: Q: news servers
>(Are you sure your internet connectivity bandwidth is sufficient to
>accept a full newsfeed?)
An important point, BTW.
56k won't cut it. Last time I checked, 128k would, but I wouldn't be
surprised if it's gone past that now.
More importantly, however, will your hard drives cut it? A single big, fast
drive won't. 2 probably won't.
The big news servers run with many small drives striped, and you're better
off if the history file is on multiple spindles that aren't also doing
something else.
Cut out alt.binaries.* and you can get away with 56k and one stripe set,
maybe, if you don't do anything else with that 56k.
I ran one briefly (before I convinced them to farm it out to a third party)
with two hard drives, not striped, and a busy 256k pipe.
We were not carrying alt.binaries.* and alt.warez.*, meaning we had
approximately a half feed.
We were getting approximately 2/3 of the remaining news per day, meaning
that at the end of three days we were a full day behind in news.
BTW, older versions of INN supposedly can't even handle the volume even with
fast hardware, but I can't confirm this, having never run it on sufficient
hardware with a full feed. I suspect the figures may be bogus, since they
came from sales people for a commercial news server product.
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