Hello, On Wednesday 19 March 2003 11:44 am, Jones wrote: > I am planning to replace a (dead) Windows 2000 computer that was used > as a web server and email server with a Debian Linux solution. This > machine is connected to the net via DSL and would run apache and > exim/qpopper and sshd. Everything else would be turned off. It is a > small church and their current site is not very busy, but she says > they do get a lot of email.
I would imagine that their 'lot of email' will be quite negligible to whatever server you can come up with. > Am I right in assuming that iptabes is enough as a firewall solution > and that I would not need to buy any additional software. That is > what I understand from my past experience with Debian/iptables as a > server and from the files at debian.org security howto at > (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/index.en.html) Absolutely. Dedicated firewall hardware in such a small installation would seem ridiculously paranoid, to me. I'm not even sure what "additional software" you could consider. > On a less related note, what hardware config would you recommend for > such a system? She has a number of machines that I could choose > from. Most of them are 1.x Ghz Pentium systems with 256MB RAM and 10 > GB IDE hard drives. After increasing the RAM to 512MB, I think this > should more than adequate for a system doing nothing but HTTP and > SMTP/POP requests. I'd say even without any additional RAM, you will be home free. Doubling it will make it fly, but I strongly doubt you will see any noticeable swapping at 256. The actual requirements of the installation you're describing are ridiculously small. Good luck, and happy Debian-ing! - Keegan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]