You keep pushing for centrally hosted school servers. Are you sure you don't work for the phone company ?
Again, unless you have a 100 Mbit connection from the school to the upstream ISP, you will need something with a disk and a significant amount of memory present in the school. I don't disagree about the need for physical security of the machine, just the proposed solution. wad On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: > As if discussions on this list aren't lively enough, here's another > issue to look at. > > While I was in Jamaica, I met with several people who work with their > school districts, and many pointed out that if a server was to stay > physically resident at the school, it will need a lot of physical > security. The most common problem is theft. The other problem will be > physical damage (just because somebody can). It is not uncommon in > some of these > > If the school server is hosted at an ISP upstream, we need something > small (maybe an XO?) at the school that can VLAN or VPN over to the > school server at the ISP/Data Center. > > Any ideas? > > cheers, > Sameer > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor of Information Systems > San Francisco State University > San Francisco CA 94132 USA > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel