30 May
2013
30 May
'13
6:09 p.m.
On 05/30/2013 08:34 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
Inquiring minds want to know: What does one _need_ a beast like that
for? :-))
Here's what I'm running on a pair of Sun T2000s:
local NAS services
email, spam/virus filtering, and POP/IMAP for ~100 people/~25 domains
Usenet news inbound server with a full-sans-binary feed
Usenet news reader services for about 10 people
web server with 26 vhosts, most DB-backed PHP like Wordpress, MediaWiki
MySQL server with 49 database totaling about 7GB
network monitoring for bandwidth, environmental sensors, etc
SVN server for myself and a few others
an instance of OS/390 via the Hercules emulator, under light use
Retrieve, decode, and render NEXRAD doppler data for 9 sites every 5mins
The T2000s were installed about two months ago, replacing a V480. The
V480 replaced an E3500 in a similar configuration to Ian's E4500 about
six years ago.
The mail users/domains/web sites/etc counts were a bit lower on the
V480, and lower still on the E3500...I'm running perhaps twice the stuff
on my current machines as I did on the E3500.
I still have the E3500; it's going to its new loving home in a month
or so.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Wimp. ;) I ran a fully-configured
E3500 for years. It really wasn't that bad.
This critter: http://i.imgur.com/Qp0TE4Y.jpg
Raised my electric bill by over $200 a month. It draws nearly 15A
continuous in that configuration. I ran it for quite a while, but
eventually had to relegate it to occasional backup service, powering
it on only when I needed it. 