Re: [Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?

2010-06-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-06-24, Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote: > > The real limitation will probably be amount of memory: To run a 1TB file > server under OpenBSD you really need to have at least 1GB of memory > available to the file system (once the kernel has taken its part), so > you can run fsck and have enough fi

Re: [Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?

2010-06-24 Thread Rogier Krieger
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 18:58, Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote: > The real limitation will probably be amount of memory: To run a 1TB file > server under OpenBSD you really need to have at least 1GB of memory [...] To add to that warning: this is why several people recommend to split such big drives up

Re: [Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?

2010-06-24 Thread Ralph Becker-Szendy
On 6/24/2010 5:00 AM, soekris-tech-requ...@lists.soekris.com wrote: > Would a net5501 reliably host a web site? On a 5501 with a single PATA laptop drive, I'm current running the gateway machine and infrastructure support: OpenBSD, NAT'ing firewall for a 2 MBit symmetric DSL link, router for 3 d

Re: [Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?

2010-06-23 Thread Alexander
rtant ones. But I also have screen session with irssi running most of the time. 512MB is a lot if you don't run X. Kind regards, Alex. - Message from edfle...@gmail.com - Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:33:19 -0700 From: Ed Flecko Subject: [Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably

Re: [Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?

2010-06-23 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
Ed Flecko wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a net5501, installing a SATA drive, > and using Apache on FreeBSD for use on my home LAN. I > might even install Squid, but maybe all this would be too > much for this device? > > For just my personal web site, do you think the > performance of the net

[Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?

2010-06-23 Thread Ed Flecko
Thank you all! Hey Will - Lighttpd might use less resources (but I can't imagine that much where performance would really suffer, would it?), but "hardening" Apache has just got to be more flexible...I would think. Yes? No? Ed smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature _

Re: [Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?

2010-06-23 Thread green
Ed Flecko wrote at 2010-06-23 20:25 -0500: > I'd like your opinion. The following is indeed my opinion and not backed by a significant amount of experience with the net5501. > I'm thinking of buying a net5501, installing a SATA drive, and using > Apache on FreeBSD for use on my home LAN. I might

Re: [Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?

2010-06-23 Thread Malcolm Herbert
I already do this with lighttpd on a net5501 which is also running as a NetBSD firewall and it works fine ... not sure whether Apache might be too heavyweight, but for me lighttpd for static pages and simple CGI it's not a problem ... I'm on the downstream end of a reasonable ADSL link and so far

[Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?

2010-06-23 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I'd like your opinion. I'm thinking of buying a net5501, installing a SATA drive, and using Apache on FreeBSD for use on my home LAN. I might even install Squid, but maybe all this would be too much for this device? For just my personal web site, do you think the performance of the net5