Well that depends on a couple of things. How many hits or what's is the workload on the web server going to be? And for the news server are you going to start your own and how many messages do expect from that? In other words the server will not handle taking 50,000 hits a day and be able to run fast. As long as those two are used in moderation you will be fine. You could run a mail server as well with out any problems. Also if you do have @home for your ISP don't let them catch you running any services on the box. I know for a fact they frown on that. Oh one last tip. Do not send messages in HTML format. Some of us still read our mail in the console and HTML makes it very hard to read, so as a general rule you should send all messages in plain text. Cheers, Eric "drop witty .signature here" -----Original Message----- From: /dev/null [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] 486 DX? Hello all, I have an old 486 DX that hasn't been a part of my network, mainly because I always considered it to slow for practical use. I'm thinking about installing Linux and using it as a workhorse: proxy, ftp/web/news server, and it will need to share drives with a NT (gag) network. Am I expecting too much? Will it be super slow? Any advice on how to make it as fast as possible? Thanks!
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