OT: Hardware for mail and DNS

[William Park]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 05:44:40PM +0800, Jerome Macaranas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	Im planning to setup a server for our office which will be
> 	running mail and dns. ( is this recommended? )
> 
> 	Can someone give me hardware specs for this.  I was thinking of
> 	a ProLiant DL140 would this be an over kill?

Yes to both count.  But, it really depends on amount of technical
knowledge/staff your office has access to.  Since you're asking, I shall
assume you got none.  In that case, 

    - Make sure secondary MX (if exist) is under your control.
      Malfunctioning secondary MX is worse than not having one at all.
      If primary MX fails, emails will queue on senders' machines if
      secondary MX doesn't exist.  But, you definitely don't want emails
      to go to the secondary MX and get lost.

    - Any hardware will do.  Of course, try to pick quality components,
      namely motherboard, harddisk, power supply.
    
    - Make sure backup strategy is simple and written out, so that
      anyone can follow it blindly.

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