Internet Server Setup

Both Linux and BSD can be used.

Since you need all this functionality you should
look at apache as your web stuff HTML...
DNS is available on both
the same is with Sendmail and Qmail

At this point I would ask following question:

What kind of volume you are expecting??
What kind of exposure you have?? (security)
What else is the server going to be used for other data??
Are you going to go through a firewall??
Are you going to make the DNS publicly available??

If you know the answers to this questions you can apply
this formula:

Ease of use = Linux
    There are a lot of tools and apps 
    for this OS it is really stable, and scalable.
    Does SMP.
    Highest Hardware support.
    Most of the new development is for Linux.
    It is not as secure as OpenBSD.
    It is not as scalable as FreeBSD. (IMO)

Heavy Loads = FreeBSD
    Very good on high loads.
    Not as secure as Linux and OpenBSD, 
    although it can be made pretty secure with
    good admin.
    Less apps then Linux

Security = OpenBSD
    Most secure. (for the Paranoid)
    Not as many applications.
    Does not do SMP.
    Less hardware support.

Hope I could help.




-----Original Message-----
From: Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. [mailto:plug@phxinternet.net]
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 7:46 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Internet Server Setup


I was wondering if anyone does setups of internet servers.

I need to create a UNIX server with the following configuration.
FTP (Anonymous and password required)
Apache supporting HTML, CGI, Perl, VRML, Java, FrontPage 2000 extensions,
Real
Audio
DNS and Bind
Email (sendmail or something else)

I am not picky on the OS... Any Linux flavor or BSD.

I have a client that is interested in this and I am no expert in LINUX/UNIX.

Can someone point me to someone whom can do a professional setup similar to

the one I mentioned above. I am looking to add some UNIX servers to our
network but never have time to do so. So any nudge in the correct direction

would be appriciated.

Thank you,
Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr.
gilljr@phxinternet.net

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