[gentoo-user] Multi-services box

[gentoo-user] Multi-services box

[Mark]

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Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different
services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a
Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in
a DMZ to protect the internal network. At first glance, should these 4
packages play well together on the same piece of hardware? I'm very open to
suggestions, including separate hardware if it's necessary.

Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

[A. Khattri]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Mark wrote:

> Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different
> services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a
> Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in
> a DMZ to protect the internal network. At first glance, should these 4
> packages play well together on the same piece of hardware?

Why not?

I have one machine doing web, email, IMAP/POP3, DNS, FTP and MySQL.

My one caveat would be to make sure its not more load than the hardware
can handle.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

[John Jolet]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:05, Mark wrote:
> Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different
> services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a
> Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in
> a DMZ to protect the internal network. At first glance, should these 4
> packages play well together on the same piece of hardware? I'm very open to
> suggestions, including separate hardware if it's necessary.
sure, however, I wouldn't dmz the whole box...just forward the ports you 
need...
>
> Thanks!
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

[Uwe Thiem]

On 29 September 2005 19:05, Mark wrote:
> Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different
> services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a
> Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in
> a DMZ to protect the internal network. At first glance, should these 4
> packages play well together on the same piece of hardware? I'm very open to
> suggestions, including separate hardware if it's necessary.

They play along just fine.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

[Mark Shields]

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I'll echo what *A. Khattri* said. I run one server, it functions as a
router, web, ftp, LAN portage mirror (thanks http-replicator!), DNS proxy
(dnsmasq), pop3(ssl), imap(ssl), smtp, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and VNC server, in
addition to Xorg. Runs just fine. But it's also an Athlon XP 2400+ (2ghz,
133 mhz fsb * 15 multiplier), 1gb of RAM (PC2100 DDR), and an old, faulty
40gb hard drive (faulty in the respect that it reports the speed as UDMA44
to the BIOS, when in fact there is no such standard and it should be UDMA66,
but that's easily fixed with hdparm). The real bottleneck on my server is my
cable modem, with only 384kbps upstream (4mbps downstream though).

But I digress. As long as the server can handle it, there shouldn't be any
problems, and in some cases, it might turn out better, and the programs can
then use sockets instead of ports to communicate with each other (which
would be the case of a web server with a seperate database server).

On 9/29/05, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
>
> On 29 September 2005 19:05, Mark wrote:
> > Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different
> > services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a
> > Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine
> in
> > a DMZ to protect the internal network. At first glance, should these 4
> > packages play well together on the same piece of hardware? I'm very open
> to
> > suggestions, including separate hardware if it's necessary.
>
> They play along just fine.
>
> Uwe
>
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> developers. - Linus Torvalds
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Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

[Christoph Gysin]

Mark Shields wrote:
> reports the speed as UDMA44 to the BIOS, when in fact there is no such 
> standard and it should be UDMA66, but that's easily fixed with hdparm).

Actually, there was a UDMA44 standard. It's defined in ATA-5 (Ansi NCITS 340-2000), tough I've never 
heard of hardware supporting only UDMA44...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

[Mark Shields]

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Ah well, I stand corrected. I at least had never heard or seen a UDMA44
standard in a BIOS setting or otherwise. This hard drive, btw, sustained
physical damage (dropped while on). Long story on that one.

On 9/30/05, Christoph Gysin <cgysin@gmx.ch> wrote:
>
> Mark Shields wrote:
> > reports the speed as UDMA44 to the BIOS, when in fact there is no such
> > standard and it should be UDMA66, but that's easily fixed with hdparm).
>
> Actually, there was a UDMA44 standard. It's defined in ATA-5 (Ansi NCITS
> 340-2000), tough I've never
> heard of hardware supporting only UDMA44...
>
> Christoph
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