linux server query

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Hi folks,

Just a little query I have, kinda a newby question, I guess.

I hope to be getting a 1mb line for my business, I would like to run my own DNS, ftp, email and http servers. Is it possible to run all these servers on just one machine? or would it be best to have seperate machines dedicated to each server process?

The machine I have, that I would like to use, a AMD 2600 Athlon, with 512mb and 80gb HDD running Mandrake.

Any help and or advise would be great.

Thanks

Kev

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how is that overkill? a 1mbit line gives him 125 kB/s in & out. That will easily be sufficient for a new small business unless you plan on hosting lots of large files. Hell I've hosted my own dns email and http on my cable line which is 40 kB/s outbound.. running a 600 user vbulletin forum with no problems.

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  pauloBSD said:
However if you intend on using that for internal services on your LAN you **should** still be ok.

Well, its just gonna be a small web server, serving maybe a couple of domain names etc, a email server to run with those domain names, a local ftp server to upload html files etc, and thats about it, not much traffic, I have an option to go to 2mb if need be, but I will cross that bridge when I get to it.

Cheers for all your input

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First all, be sure the firewall is on the alone box; not with the DNS, mail, web and etc servers. The DNS, mail, web and etc servers can be together fine.

Be sure you have the two IP static to get your DNS server more realistic.

I think, I would suggest you to switch to some the better Linux distro or BSD that has no GUI and services running by default. Or, you can strip a lot of stuff on the Mandrake.

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