[SunRescue] Whew...

[Sheldon T. Hall]

On Friday, March 03, 2000 10:32 PM, Pres. Dan Jameyson wrote:
>
> Just out of curiosity, what's the best value for a functional Solaris
> unit (pref sparc architecture) for web hosting, email, routing, and
> other general use services?

As a "value proposition" it would be hard to beat my IPX.  A friend pulled 
out of a dumpster in Silicon Valley.  It had a half-gig disk drive, 16 megs 
of memory, and booted into SunOS 4.1.3.

I did have to buy a Macintosh modem cable so I could run it with a as a 
terminal, so it wasn't completely free, but it did do an adequate job of 
running HTTP, SMTP, NTP, and DNS servers.

Honestly, though, it was a little slow, even after I bumped it up to 64 
megs of memory.

At the moment, my home network is using an LX for web hosting, email, NTP 
services, and DNS.  Works fine, and is plenty fast enough.  I expect that 
an SS5 would be more than adequate for a small-company network.

-Shel