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From: trident@access2.digex.net (Trident Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: optimal system for WWW server?
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Date: 8 Aug 1995 23:24:09 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
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Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <3vbp0p$ddo@inews.sc.intel.com> mwilley@xws181.sc.intel.com (Mark F Willey) writes:
: >Well, your ethernet card is going to be faster than the ISDN link, so that's not
: >it...  I'd get a pentium (100++) with PCI everything, SCSI disks, PCI ethernet.

: Grossout way to spend too much money. Web server is where to put your 
: surplus 486 boxes.

We're running out Web server from a 486SX and it works just fine for 50+
connections a day (not great but decent considering we didn't spend much
on it).