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on 11/22/2000 10:14 AM, Seth Long at slong@soundpublishing.com wrote:
Re: Performa 475?
From: Tom Wiebe
Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Time: 3:04:20 pm
>> 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.
>
>> 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).
>
> Would you run it then as a background process on some other server?
Seth,
The License for QDNS allows you to run 2 copies, a primary and a secondary.
Why not put one copy in the background on one of your big boxes, and run
another copy on <insert obsolete mac salvaged from dumpster here> ?
Should give you the best of both worlds, no?
Cause I like to be especially redundant, we run QDNS on our primary
co-located server, one on an old Power Computing over DSL from home and a
copy of Bind on the old Linux box that serves as a router for our local
network here. Works great but it's a pain in the butt to have to snake a
monitor cable over to the Linux box when we add a new secondary (I have
Telnet turned off because I know just enough about Linux to be really
dangerous. I fix most problems with a fresh install!).
Tom Wiebe
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