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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