9 Nov
2006
9 Nov
'06
6:16 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
From 1994 (or so) through 1997, I ran two
DECstation-3100s in
production roles on my home network; one as a name server and one as a
mail server handling several medium-volume lists. Around the same time
I used a pair of VAXstation-3100/38 machines in production doing the
same things at an ISP in NJ. All four machines were running NetBSD.
They barely broke a sweat under the load, and had a 100% reliability
record for the nearly three years that they were running.
I *still* use a DECstation 5000/260 as my DNS server and backup
mailserver today. The machine (200MHz R4400, if memory serves) is
reasonably quick.
Peace... Sridhar