I'm maintaining a server with three domains, running apache, squirrelmail, postfix, cyrus imap and saslauthd, mailman, djbdns and a perl-based bulletin board, and I probably spend an average of 8 hours a month doing server-admin type stuff.
Can anyone give me a very rough estimate on how much time is required on an ongoing basis, after a server is set up with FreeBSD and Apache, to maintain everything. By everything I am referring to everything required to keep the server up, and host about 100 domains. Thank you in advance and I apologize if this question is not appropriate for this list.
If you set it up right, the only maintenance you have is running portupgrade and freebsd-update periodically, to ensure your apps don't have known security holes. Make sure you have a good backup system in case a drive fails, and that's about it.
You can write "canary" scripts that monitor processes and attempt to restart them if they fail, and send you email as well. Most of the eight hours is spent reading mail from cron jobs that are monitoring the server. FreeBSD just runs.
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