EFN's customers are not all local, some use efn's mailserver, but dont dialup. EFN also has many DSL customers, they are local, but dont dialup. My guess however is that most of the mail services are used by dialup customers though.
Jamie On Friday 25 July 2003 09:54 am, Ben Barrett wrote: : Good point. This means he should also avoid the Pentium and AMD : chipsets, and stick with Xeon, unless it is already on sun or other : higher-end iron (er,silion)... more reliable mfg processes and QA. : : ciao : : Ben : : : PS - should we also assume that EFN is in a slightly different place as : far as available funds, than most other ISP's? Certainly there might be : money for a new SCSI system, but EFN has a history of being shoe-string, : whatever will work (ie, starting out under the stairwell) -- not that : other ISP's don't secretly do this, we just know more about EFN... and : they might be ready to take a scuzzy plunge. ( = Nu-world's mail : server is[old-]dog-slow, IMO = / : BTW, Are most of the customers on dialup at EFN? : : : On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:52:11 -0400 : : "Grigsby, Garl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : | <snip> latest firmware with the card then things tend to work better. : | </snip> : | : | See the thing is when you are setting up a core service, like : | email hosting, you do not want things to "work better", you want : | them to work flawlessly. I don't mind messing around with things : | like IDE raid on a workstation, as long as it is not a critical : | one, but when it comes to something that has to work all of the : | time, then you go with a time tested and trusted solution. SCSI : | raid has been around for a long time and it works very, very : | well. SCSI disks are built better than their IDE counterparts. : : ... : : | Yes they cost a lot more per GB, but you get what you pay for. : | These disks will be seeing a lot of use. They will be on : | 24/7/365 for 5 years under steady use. Larry said he was looking : | for a system that would be useable for 5 years with near zero : | downtime. That means you go with the most reliable components : | you can. Will it cost more? Of course. Now if he had said, we : | need 95% uptime, then maybe bringing the system down to replace : | IDE disks would be OK. : | : | Sorry, if I seem to be beating this to death, but as far as I am : | concerned IDE is not an option. I've seen too many IDE drives die : | (remember the IBM 75GXP?) to trust them on something like a mail : | server. : | : | Garl : : _______________________________________________ : EuG-LUG mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- ���`����,��,����`�������`����,��,����`�������`����,��,����`���� The Famous Joke of the Day One Liner! Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
