Search Again: Re: Honest Base Config From: Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. Date: Thursday, March 9, 2000 Time: 8:25:00 am >I'd like to run my own DNS servers, but would like to dedicate a relatively >low-end machine for the task if possible. > >I've seen the requirements for QDNS: > >System 7 or later >2048K RAM >Open Transport 1.1.1 or later, or MacTCP 2.0.6 or later >Macintosh with a 68020 or later CPU > >The above implies something like an SE/30 would work, but I would imagine >that such a machine might be a little sluggish in response and processing >numerous requests. > >I'd like to get an honest response on what would be a base machine (machine, >CPU, RAM, OS) for running QDNS Pro for a site that handles approx. 500,000 >hits a day (not my own unfortunately). > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > >-- > >Clarence > >-> clarencek@ifurnishing.com Get the cheapest iMac you can find, 233Mhz or better with 64MB of RAM, and give a large partition of RAM to QDNS. If DNS is slow, it makes everything else appear slow. Don't skimp on DNS. If you're going to have a few hundred thousand DNS requests per day, you are out of the "low-end" realm. Sorry, if you want to do it right, a low end Mac probably won't cut it. That's my 2 cents. Here's a fairly wacky idea though, that may or may not work......... If all the DNS requests are for domains that are being hosted, you could get 10 or so Macs with 68030 processors, (68030 so you could run a recent version of Open Transport) and register them all with the InterNIC, one as a primary server, and 9 as secondary servers, and the requests should be fairly load balanced across them. You'd have to set up all your domains to use the 10 DNS boxes, but it just might work, especially if you have plenty of low end Macs to dedicate to DNS servers. It'd probably be cheaper to get an older iMac (or two) though. You've have to buy several copies of QDNS Pro for all those machines. -Jerry

Messages In This Thread: Honest Base Config by Clarence Kwei on Mar 9, 2000 at 8:05:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. on Mar 9, 2000 at 8:25:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Clarence Kwei on Mar 9, 2000 at 9:44:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jesse Proudman on Mar 9, 2000 at 3:21:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Dale Therio on Mar 9, 2000 at 4:20:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by stuff on Mar 9, 2000 at 8:56:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. on Mar 9, 2000 at 9:30:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Clarence Kwei on Mar 9, 2000 at 10:24:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Men & Mice Support on Mar 9, 2000 at 11:54:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Global Homes Webmaster on Mar 10, 2000 at 12:06:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jesse Proudman on Mar 10, 2000 at 12:15:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Aaron Lynch on Mar 10, 2000 at 12:34:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jesse Proudman on Mar 10, 2000 at 12:44:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Paul Didzerekis on Mar 10, 2000 at 1:11:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Jerry Pasker-Systems Admin. on Mar 10, 2000 at 1:23:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Peter Nilsson on Mar 10, 2000 at 7:59:00 am Re: Honest Base Config by Clarence Kwei on Mar 10, 2000 at 2:33:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Peter Lalor on Mar 14, 2000 at 6:36:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Systems on Mar 15, 2000 at 6:00:00 pm Re: Honest Base Config by Peter Lalor on Mar 15, 2000 at 11:43:00 pm