Re: qmail publicfile : need advice

If they don't already, someone somewhere will want PHP, authentication, 
or something publicfile doesn't provide before long. While I'd agree 
that qmail and djbdns are functional equivalents of sendmail/bind, I 
wouldn't say the same applies for publicfile and apache. It's more than 
adequate for static content though, and I usually use it for mirroring.

My personal preference is for Debian as the underlying OS - it has nice 
djb software downloaders/installers, which patch for FHS compliance (and 
FHS is good for us sysadmins, IMHO).

Consider content-type, spam and size filtering too. spamassassin would 
probably be a good addition to the system, as would qmail-scanner or 
equivalent (and perhaps the free clam antivirus), and an appropriate 
DATABYTES.

Regards,

Sam

PayalR wrote:

>Hi all,
>	I have been asked by a high school to setup a mail and webserver for the 
>school. Under this, I will have to provide 5Mb webspace and additional 5 Mb 
>for emails for each of 3000 students. This work is totally a non-profit work 
>and I also have to suggest the hardware. 
>Since the budget is as always a major bottleneck I plan to use assembled PC 
>intel  P-4, 512 Mb RAM, 2x20Gb SCSI hardrives and the works. I plan to use 
>Mandrake/Red Hat Linux with kernel 2.4.x. 
>	Also, since I guess these might be limiting factors, I won't push Apache 
>c'os of some security issues. Instead I would prefer publicfile with qmail 
>and djbdns. Though 3000 users are there, I guess 40-50% of them will make 
>their webpages and only 10% of them will have hits. As regards email,  I 
>guess all of them use it and say I will get outgoing SMTP traffic of around 
>12,000 daily (average). 
>	Do you guys recommend this setup. Am I right in not using apache? ( to be 
>frank I want to use public files cos' I love Dan's softwares :) ) Also, this 
>is a one time setup and the location is far off from my home, in a different 
>state. I want the server to be up and trouble-free as long as possible.
>	Do you suggest any changes in this? Is hardware and softwares OK?
>Thanks a lot in advance and bye.
>With regards.
>-Payal
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