Search Again: Re: Need a recommendation From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, April 4, 2003 Time: 11:34:35 am It has been our experience that Mac OS X is much more stable than Mac OS 9. You can run services on your workstation machine and, unless they're very busy, you'll probably never notice them when you're not using them. For example, my PowerBook runs the DNS server for my entire testing lab. It also runs a minimum of 6 client-side applications at any given time (sometimes as many as 15), plus the Jakarta Tomcat web server (for the web interface version of QuickDNS Manager). Unlike classic Mac OS, where you have to be careful about not holding down the mouse button when you're running a service, let alone doing anything else that might disrupt everything, I don't have to worry about running buggy software and having it take down the DNS server. Eudora, for example, crashes on me at least twice a week, but that doesn't affect any other process - in fact, I can just restart it and continue working, without rebooting. I can't make an official recommendation. But unofficially, if I were in your place, I would go with the iMac guts in the 1U enclosure, running Mac OS X and both services. I don't have any experience with any Mac OS X version of EIMS, but there are other Mac OS X mail services that you can use. Postfix, for example. Note that the XServe also uses ATA, rather than SCSI. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 2:05 PM -0500 4/4/03, andrew kagan wrote: >Hi All: I'm contemplating colo'ing a few servers. One would be DNS and the >other mail (EIMS). > >I currently have (locally) QDNS3.5 running on OS9 on one desktop box and >EIMS 3.2 on OS9 on a second desktop box. > >I'm trying to consume as few U's as possible. > >As I see it, I have the following options: > >Option 1: >Use a 1U case for an IMAC, and run QuickDNS on OS9. >Use a 1U case for an IMAC and run EIMS 3.2 on OS9. >Pros: low cost, stable and secure >Cons: disk access is primary importance on an EIMS server, and the IMAC only >supports ATA, whereas I'd prefer U320 SCSI for the EIMS server. > >Alternative: Put a G3/G4 in a 4U case with SCSI drives for the EIMS >server...but now I'm at 5U. > >Option 2: >Get an XServe and run OSX native versions of Quick DNS and EIMS. >Pros: Fast; everything in 1U, ability to stably run both apps on a single >box (?). >Cons: Cost of an XServe; EIMS for OSX may be in beta for some time. > >I haven't experimented with QuickDNS for OSX, but the QDNS list has been >very quiet, so I'm assuming it's working pretty well if it's configured >properly. > >I'd welcome any comments or observations. > >TIA, Andrew

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