--- In [email protected], "dave fales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ok my brain is running wild but tonight I was talking to my techsuport > consultant and we were talking about pop3 email options you can go with > just the dsl line then pay a company for just email service which out > here in the middle of no were he says runs about 20 a month so this is > one idea in my head how hard would it be to buy an older server on bay > an set up hosting my own email he said it can be done but how fast of a > server would you need for that I know at least one guy on here hosts his > own web page but does any one do there own pop 3 server how hard is it > and how fast of a server is needed
First, as cheap as email setup is I don't see the point in setting up your own. Being in the middle of nowhere is irrelevant when you are talking internet mail to begin with. We use a web-site and email plan from 1and1. Yahoo, godaddy etc offer similar plans and all of the big hosts offer an email only plan. Second, running your own server on a used server might bring some unexpected issues. You have no idea if the prior user ran the thing in a hot house, a barn or what. For example, my brother-in-law runs two computers in a barn. Therefore hard drives, CD drives etc fail much quicker than a computer in a more hospitable environment. Every component in the system you buy may be on the brink of failure, especially the power supply which could have suffered a lot of brown outs and spikes over the years even in a good environment. That being said, I would not get anything with less than 1 GB RAM for such a server even if you have to add more when you get the computer. Any Pentium 3 or 4 or AMD Athlon or Athlon 64 should do the job. As for hard drives, I would find a way to create a mirrored set to increase up time. On most flavors of Linux you can do this with Software raid and two drives of approximately the same size. For example, if you had one of 60 GB and one of 65 GB, the second drive would give you room for the boot partition and swap space. You could then use the rest of the drive in a software RAID pair. The needed 10/100 NIC would not be a big expense if you had to add one later. Finally, almost any video card will do since you could even do everything without running X windows. Loyal ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/kOt0.A/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
