Servers 101

[Steve Lamb]

Billie Walsh wrote:
> Well, I'm not so sure "we" have a reason for one up front. Share and 
> store files, in house mail possibly, Uhm, internet to everything else. 
> Not sure what it's all capable of.

    On my home network I have a Debian box that provides file sharing,
NAT/Firewall for the rest of the network, a shared squid web cache with
adzapper.  I used to have mail/web on that machine as well but since moved it
to a VM host because having it in my house on my DSL was neat it was just too
much of a hassle because of pigheaded policies from the broadband providers
with no real alternatives.  All of that has run happily on a PIII 667Mhz
machine with ~700Mb of RAM.  Most of which is unused.

> We probably don't need one in the first place but you never know.

    Well, who says it needs to be needed?  Really, most things on computers
aren't really needed.  Sure you could do without or do it differently but if
you learn from it and if it makes things easier to maintain or upgrade later,
that is reason enough, even if none of it is needed.

-- 
         Steve C. Lamb         | But who can decide what they dream
       PGP Key: 1FC01004       |      and dream I do
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