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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!telepost.no!usenet From: trond@winternet.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Low-end Internet sites Date: 22 May 1996 16:05:44 GMT Organization: Telenor Online Public Access Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4nve0o$877@nms.telepost.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: oslo214.telepost.no X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) Do you have a really low end/low budget Internet site -- a Linux, BSD, DOS, OS/2, Win NT, Win 95, Win 3.1 box or whatever running as a gateway, router and/or ftp, Web, IRC server or whatever with a regular phone line to the Internet? If so, I would like to know about it. Please e-mail me a description of your set-up along with your modem speed, URL or other interested things as number of hits you can manage, your compression strategies, etc. For example, I installed an NT server (a 486/33 with 32 Mb RAM) as a TCP/IP gateway/router for a small LAN. It uses RAS over a 14.4 modem link and runs a Web, ftp and mail server in addition to the routing job - the people who use it are very happy with this setup (it doesn't cost much and it is all that they need). In addition, I also set up an NT server on a 386/33 box with 20 Mb RAM. It ran (I had to take it down because I moved) a fully searchable Web site based on Lotus InterNotes and EMWACS HTTPS. Have you done something like that, I would like to hear from you. I am collecting case studies/URL links that I can put on my Web site that will be dedicated to the topic of squeezing bandwidth and speed out of regular phone lines and low cost hardware. Not everyone can afford a T1 line and as Gibson wrote: "the street finds its own uses for things." Let us not forget that there are a lot of people who see how fast they can get their VW Bugs to go...... Trond Johnsen