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Re: Performa 475?

From: Global Homes Webmaster
Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Time: 10:42:21 am

On 11/22/00 at 10:14, Seth Long wrote:

> > Seth, you crack me up! Multi Processor G4's to a t3's VPN and a
> > performa 475?
>
> I know, I know. They'll pay for the FTP server when everyone complains about
> throughput but won't spend money on the DNS. I try.

Bosses and clients. *sigh*

> > pcliquidator.com has 6100's for $22.
> >
> > What is the current load on your DNS? I don't think I'd put a mission
> > critical service on a box that old, regardless of performance.
>
> We aren't running our own DNS yet. The ISP handles it for us and charges
> about $800/year for the name hosting alone (21 domains).

Yikes!! That's outrageous. There ought to be a law...

> Would you run it then as a background process on some other server?

QDNS' memory and CPU footprint is pretty small. You should be able to run it
on the same box with other servers with minimal impact. I've got QDNS running
on my web server with no problems, and I think you'll find that many of the
people on this list are running it on machines that are shared with other
services.

Christopher Bort



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