> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Daybreak Breakdaze ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, I am already running a Web Proxy cache on an old PC, but I >> would like to also run a low volume web and mail server. However, >> it would be nice to get another system that was low on wattage, yet >> had hardware supported by OpenBSD. Hopefully it wouldn't be too >> noisy either.
"Low volume web and mail server" means different things to different people. There's a world of difference between serving static webpages and taking whatever mail is received and putting it into a mailbox, and serving CGIs or some web scripting language and running mail through spamassassin. On 2010-01-20, Rev. Shamim Mohamed, D.D., LFHCfS <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you considered the Soekris boxes? www.soekris.com. They're useful, but they're fairly slow. For some people, the serial console is a big win, for others it's a drawback. The pcengines boards make great firewalls, nameservers, timeservers etc. Soekris can do more (another nic, PCI port, somewhere you can put a 2.5" disk instead of just a CF) but they're significantly more expensive. There are also a bunch of atom- and via-based systems which mostly work ok (also slowish at a given clock speed compared to P3/Core systems, but quicker than the fastest current Soekris/pcengines systems and can take more RAM and disks, OTOH they do take a bit more power). e.g.: D945GCLF2, various Jetway, MSI, VIA and others. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
