From: Ivan Fetch (sunmanagers@cs.du.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 17:21:03 EST
Hello all,
We're a "financially challenged" computer science department who would
like to spread services out a bit more; have less services running per
machine. We currently have an Enterprise 250 server (housing home
directories and mail spools, acdting as our SMTP, IMAP, and NIS server),
an Ultra2 (running Oracle 9.2 - surprised that runs) and another Ultra2
(acting as our POP, DNS, and Web server). The Ultra2 machines are also
used by faculty and students to check email, compile programs, and
occasionally run network simulator (NS2) simulations.
We're looking into purchasing 1-2 more machines so we can move services
(i.e. we'd like to have a machine no one logs into that can handle SMTP,
POP, and IMAP, or at least separate SMTP from the rest of the machines).
Honestly we can only afford to spend ~$1000, at the moment - what do you
all recommend that won't be a waste of money and space? One particular
vendor is offering me an ultra60 with a 380 Mhz processor, 510 Mb (3rd
party) RAM, and 9 Gb disk for $630 (this price seems good, but I haven't
baught Sun hardware long enough to really know).
Are there any good places (web sites, books) for me to get more of a
handle on how Sun hardware translates to performance?
Thanks as always for sharing your experience and opinions,
I will of course summarize responces and what we decide to do.
Ivan Fetch.
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