This doesn't make much sense. He's willing to spend thousands of dollars on
hardware and software, then connect the system to the Internet via a shared
connection over a single T1 through a neighboring office??? If he can
afford occasional outages for minutes or hours at a time, this might be
acceptable, if not, he'd better start looking for a better solution.
Believe me, the connection is every bit as important as the hardware and
software.
If the site needs its own server, then it should be colocated in a good
datacenter and pay whatever it costs. You could probably find something for
under $300 per. A better solution, unless he already has inhouse (read: no
extra cost to him) support staff, is to contract a managed server that would
include firewalling, server monitoring, data backups.
If traffic is going to be low, the best value is just to use a good shared
host for something like $30 to $100 per month.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Troxel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: Hardware Software suggestions
> I have a client who is planning on putting up his own server for his
website
> and I would like some advice.
>
> His site is a private site for affiliates to compile & share various
> information on and will not be using ecommerce and will probably
> never get over 50 users. His reasoning for having his own server in his
> office is for security reasons as well as time saving in data transfer.
>
> I am looking at:
> OS:Windows 2000 Server Pro
> HTTP Server: IIS as it comes with OS
> Application Server: Cold Fusion 4.5 Pro
> FTP Server: Serv-U
> Remote Access: PCAnywhere
> Mail Server: IMail
> Database: Access 2000
>
> Computer: Pentium III, 700+ mhz, 512meg ram, 30 gig hd, 10/100 nic card
>
> He has access to a T1 from a company in the next office which will allow
him
> to plug into one of the ports in their hub and register him to one of the
> ip's in their block. I believe he will be behind their firewall and they
> will enable the necessary ports to allow his users access.
>
> Any pros-cons or suggestions on whatever I might have missed would be
> appreciated.
>
> Terry Troxel
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