FW: Production Server

[Kevin]

A friend asked me the following questions, but I have no experience in this
area.  I would like to collect some PLUG input and send it back to him.

Any takers?

...Kevin 


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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:21:29 -0400
Subject: Production Server

Kevin,

I have some work related questions and thought you might know.

We need to replace our elderly fax server here at work and have looked at
several solutions.  We have found a couple people that sell ready to go fax
servers that are Linux servers with fax modems and HylaFAX.  They are
basically charging for the hardware and setup service since it is entirely
open source... like i-fax.com.

My questions are:
Do you know if this is a good open source solution?  Is there a better one?
We use 4 lines (2 incoming and and 2 outgoing) and send about 500 faxes a
day.
For a production server, is CentOS or Fedora better?
Do you know of anyone able to setup a server of our own like this and
willing to reliably support it (for a fee of course) if we had a problem I
couldn't solve?

Thank you very much.  Take care!
Greg