At 08:12 PM 3/13/00 -0600, you wrote:
This was just discussed recently on the inet list. From what I gathered, you would need a system more like this: Pentium II 400Mhz, 1GB ram, SCSI Ultra controller and around 50GB of drive space. Obviously, the better the hardware you can afford will help. A Raid array would also be good. ;)
And that's this month. News is still growing.
(we outsource our news because of this, and besides..., it's a pita.;)
Outsourcing is the "only" way to do news, in my opinion. Two years ago I seriously thought about going into the news outsourcing business. I'm glad I didn't. The bandwidth costs are tremendous. Even with skycache, you'd need a backup feed.
Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>