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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!peer-news.britain.eu.net!uknet!news.hds.co.uk!john From: Gary Walsh <Gary_Walsh@spire.hds.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 10 Jan 1996 10:55:33 GMT Organization: Hitachi Data Systems Lines: 36 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4d05v5$cnn@willow.hds.co.uk> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hdsep.hds.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1870 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2006 comp.unix.solaris:56782 comp.unix.aix:68322 mstary@prairienet.org (stary) wrote: >Hi, >I have a dilemma about the hardware that I should use for my ISP/WWW >site (www, ftp, ppp/slip, news, pop....). After some research and >after reading the Inet-access FAQ a couple of times, I get very >contradicting evidence on what h/w I should use. I have considered and >analyzed three different platforms (from a raw CPU performance point of >view): > >(1) Sun-SunOS, Solaris, >(2) IBM PPCs - AIX, Solaris ppc >(3) Pentium P5/P6 - BSD (I, net), x86 Solaris > >Any ideas are welcomed....thank you for your time, Martin Stary > The IBM machine that you're considering is, as you say, quite pricey. Why not consider one of the PReP compliant boxes from IBM or Motorola Computer Group? I'm not 100% sure, but I think IBM will only sell you the client version of AIX for some of their boxes, whereas Motorola will sell you client or server. You can get machines with 604-133 for a very reasonable sum from both IBM and MCG. Gary -- _____________________________________________________________________ Gary Walsh E-mail: Gary_Walsh@spire.hds.co.uk Open Systems Product Specialist Phone: +44 1753 618806 Hitachi Data Systems Fax: +44 1753 618576 Sefton Park Stoke Poges Disclaimer: My views, not HDS' Buckinghamshire SL2 4HD England _____________________________________________________________________