A couple of us at work have convinced our IT guy to look at Linux for the DNS server. We have, unfortunately, at Win2k network with 1 server for DNS, 1 for Microsoft Exchange, 1 for IIS webserver, Oracle 8i database server, and 3 file servers. At one time we had exchange and DNS on the same server and it would crash regularly, usually about once a week. Exchange was put on another server by itself, now either exchange or the DNS crashes every 2 to 3 weeks. For awhile, the DNS was crashing every week. You could access some websites on the internet, but not all. Question is, can you run linux server with both DNS and a mail service, or Apache webserver on one machine and not have the problems that Win2K does with this type setup? We are a small company with 7 servers and about 50 clients. Art
On Friday 26 April 2002 17:54, Art Fore wrote:
A couple of us at work have convinced our IT guy to look at Linux for the DNS server. We have, unfortunately, at Win2k network with 1 server for DNS, 1 for Microsoft Exchange, 1 for IIS webserver, Oracle 8i database server, and 3 file servers. At one time we had exchange and DNS on the same server and it would crash regularly, usually about once a week. Exchange was put on another server by itself, now either exchange or the DNS crashes every 2 to 3 weeks. For awhile, the DNS was crashing every week. You could access some websites on the internet, but not all.
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Question is, can you run linux server with both DNS and a mail service, or Apache webserver on one machine and not have the problems that Win2K does with this type setup? We are a small company with 7 servers and about 50 clients.
How loudly can I scream yes? :) Linux could handle that standing on its head. The OS isn't the problem, it can handle a small/medium-sized installation like yours without problems. Hardware could become a bottleneck, but on a scale like what you're talking about I doubt it. I've set up systems like that myself, and around the net you can find thousands of success stories about just such a scenario. Anders
Hello, I don't see any problem to run together several services in the same box. Indeed, many of us are running multiple services in just one host. On Friday 26 April 2002 17:54, you wrote:
Question is, can you run linux server with both DNS and a mail service, or Apache webserver on one machine and not have the problems that Win2K does with this type setup? We are a small company with 7 servers and about 50 clients.
Art
On Friday 26 April 2002 10:54 am, Art Fore wrote:
A couple of us at work have convinced our IT guy to look at Linux for the DNS server. We have, unfortunately, at Win2k network with 1 server for DNS, 1 for Microsoft Exchange, 1 for IIS webserver, Oracle 8i database server, and 3 file servers. At one time we had exchange and DNS on the same server and it would crash regularly, usually about once a week. Exchange was put on another server by itself, now either exchange or the DNS crashes every 2 to 3 weeks. For awhile, the DNS was crashing every week. You could access some websites on the internet, but not all.
Question is, can you run linux server with both DNS and a mail service, or Apache webserver on one machine and not have the problems that Win2K does with this type setup? We are a small company with 7 servers and about 50 clients.
Art... You absolutely can do this. I've done it before, as have *a lot* of other people. You're main limitation to how much to have the one computer do will be due to performance -- how loaded down will it be to service all the requests, etc. These services all run independently of each other, and I've never heard of running a combination causing system crashes, etc. Forget all that you learned in the WinDoze world. ;-) -Nick
absolutely its possible. i have had the folloing setup running for a law firm that has about 60 clients (all win9x) running for two and a half years now and the only time i have to reboot is when i upgrade their kernel or do some other patching. the box is an amd 450 with 256 meg of ram (started out with 128 but added more when i installed the sybase server) and 4 20 gig ide drives (ata 66) its running apache, mysql, sendmail, dns, samba and sybase. the sybase server is really the only thing that puts a load on the server. i have another machine (same hardware minus 128 meg ram and 2 of the drives) that their firewalling and transparent proxying. These two boxes (started out with suse 6.1, on suse 7.1) replaced a novell server (samba), and three nt servers (exchange, iis, sybase). and at that time they only had a 128k isdn line. On Friday 26 April 2002 10:54 am, Art Fore wrote:
A couple of us at work have convinced our IT guy to look at Linux for the DNS server. We have, unfortunately, at Win2k network with 1 server for DNS, 1 for Microsoft Exchange, 1 for IIS webserver, Oracle 8i database server, and 3 file servers. At one time we had exchange and DNS on the same server and it would crash regularly, usually about once a week. Exchange was put on another server by itself, now either exchange or the DNS crashes every 2 to 3 weeks. For awhile, the DNS was crashing every week. You could access some websites on the internet, but not all.
Question is, can you run linux server with both DNS and a mail service, or Apache webserver on one machine and not have the problems that Win2K does with this type setup? We are a small company with 7 servers and about 50 clients.
Art
-- Chad Whitten Network/Systems Administrator neXband Communications cwhitten@nexband.com
I am running DNS, Apache, as well as a listserv (mailman) for about 20 user groups on http://www.blu.org. Currently the mail server is using postscript. The uptime is only 56 days since we moved it to a new server (rack mount instead of an old Pentium tower). All in all, we have not had the system crash in well over 2 years other tham a power supply failure, a power outage, and moving the server to and fro. Out of the 20 user groups, about 5 or 6 of them are virtually hosted. This is a bit different from an internal server, but the bottom line is that you will find Linux to be a very stable platform and virtually everything may be remotely managed. On 26 Apr 2002 at 8:54, Art Fore wrote:
A couple of us at work have convinced our IT guy to look at Linux for the DNS server. We have, unfortunately, at Win2k network with 1 server for DNS, 1 for Microsoft Exchange, 1 for IIS webserver, Oracle 8i database server, and 3 file servers. At one time we had exchange and DNS on the same server and it would crash regularly, usually about once a week. Exchange was put on another server by itself, now either exchange or the DNS crashes every 2 to 3 weeks. For awhile, the DNS was crashing every week. You could access some websites on the internet, but not all.
Question is, can you run linux server with both DNS and a mail service, or Apache webserver on one machine and not have the problems that Win2K does with this type setup? We are a small company with 7 servers and about 50 clients.
Art
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