Re: News Feed

Ray Carpenter ( ray@systec.com )
Thu, 05 Mar 1998 15:13:35 -0500

Thanks for the advice.
Ray
At 07:12 PM 3/3/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I would recommend a 15GB+ Hard Drive with 128MB RAM for a Multipurpose server
>(News, Web, etc... Do not use as Mail server) Usually the standard setup
will
>properly run fine.
>
>Usually your backbone provider has a NewsFEED. Talk to them about it.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ray Carpenter <ray@systec.com>
>To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
>Date: March 3, 1998 11:19 AM
>Subject: Re: News Feed
>
>
>>Just wanted to thank everyone for responding. But I have a couple of more
>>questions.
>>
>>If you were starting this (news feed) from scratch and wanted to sleep at
>>night what hardware config would you go with, using NT as the OS.
>>
>>Also has anyone besides John checked into a news service. Currently we use
>>zippo and their service ranges from incredibly fast to horribly slow.
>>Everyone we have looked at seems to be on the west coast and we're on the
>>east coast. The closest to us is SuperNews (if I remember correctly) and
>>their 14 hops away. If anyone knows of a service on the east coast I'd
>>appreciate knowing about it.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Ray
>>
>>
>>At 06:24 PM 3/2/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>>HI
>>>
>>>We use DNews and have really good luck with it. I don't understand really
>>>complex software and found the the default setup is sufficient for me.
>>>
>>>We have a full UUNET style feed and it works fine.
>>>
>>>The new versions have spam filtering, cross-post filtering, etc. You can
>>>even throttle the speed that articles come in, and even schedule the times
>>>the certain articles are accepted. Like alt.binaries.* from 3am to 6am
etc.
>>>
>>>Downfalls:
>>>1. bandwidth
>>>2. bandwidth
>>>3. bandwidth
>>>4. bandwidth
>>>
>>>I think that I have the server throttled way down and the server/feed uses
>>>up about 1/3 of our incomming T1. I shut the server down last week for
>>>about 4 hours and saw our usage drop by 50%.
>>>
>>>5. Depending on the number of active news readers this process can be VERY
>>>CPU intensive. We rarely have more than 2 - 4 users on the server at one
>>>time, so a P75 with 128 MB ram is doing fine. Several hunderd could blow
>>>up a Dual 333 with a GB of ram, raid 5 etc.
>>>
>>>6. Disk space - Depending on the size and numer of feeds, 5 days of news
>>>could easily use up 7 - 30 GB of disk space.
>>>
>>>We have been considering the use of a news service. I think SuperNews
>>>offers 10 users for $100 per month. If it boils down to getting a second
>>>T1 we will gladly sacrifice the News Server.
>>>
>>>JOhn :}
>>>
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