Greetings
Maybe not relevant but Dell have offices across the world and if you
are looking for hardware that will be remotely admined (IE it is a few
hours away from you) then they are a good option along with a on-site
warranty.
You may need to get the server host to get the initial installation up
and maybe give the Dell tech access in the event of hardware failure.
You also need to bear backups in mind.
Regards
Michael L Griffin
Unix Administrator
MWEB Business
Fax : +27 11 340 7288
Email : michael @ mweb . com
Support : +27 860 100 154
Website : www.mwebbusiness.co.za
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giuliano Gavazzi [mailto:eximlists@humph.com]
> Sent: 17 December 2004 00:22
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] server hardware for exim in Italy
>
> At 9:30 am +0100 2004/12/15, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> >Dear all, this is perhaps not completely IT.
> >
> >I am looking for a supplier of good server harware (with hardware
> >support contract) for running exim in a small setup (less than 100
> >users) but requiring optimum reliability (hardware raid mirroring,
> >hot swap, perhaps multiple power supplies). I am going to run a BSD
> >flavour (FreeBSD most likely).
> >I cannot find any one in Italy.
> >Any suggestion from the italians on the list?
> >
> >Otherwise I should probably go for an Apple solution (and not
> >necessarily the Xserve, I think the tower G5 are built well enough,
> >even without hot-swap...)
> >
>
> well, no reply, perhaps was not enough of a RTFM type of question to
> be asked on this list...
> I decided the best option is probably to get use a cheap PC running
> exim on FreeBSD as a front end server (scanning, spam scoring and
> rejection) relaying all local mail to the internal XServe (running
> MacOSX and postfix, as it comes as standard with, I guess, all the
> GUI, non for me..., to manage lusers).
> I can then check for local users with a recipient callout. I should
> get reliability (the XServe being configured with hardware RAID) and
> security (the mailstore and other sensitive data are (almost)
> completely insulated from the outside network. Yes, one can break
> into the ouside server and attack the inside one from there...
>
> Comments? (I doubt)
>
> Giuliano
>
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