[WEB4LIB] Re: Recently, I requested a price for a proxy server

[Glenn Bunton]

Here at Old Dominion University, we serve a student population of approximately
18000 and offer access to around 200 restricted databases. We use apache as our
proxy server on a pentium 200 with 128 mb of ram and have experienced no
problems at all...

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eric at openly.com on 04/13/2000 02:21:13 PM
Please respond to eric at openly.com



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Subject:  [WEB4LIB] Re: Recently, I requested a price for a proxy server



You omitted the key data item, which is your network connection. If
you have a T1, that will limit you long before your box will. That's
1.544 Mb/s, or 193kB/s

Your box will have 1378 clock cycles per byte for thinking.

At 10:05 AM -0700 4/13/00, Jonathan Sparks wrote:
>Recently, I requested a price for a proxy server for on/off campus
>access to library resources.  Although I gave open choice on what
>server hardware to purchase, I was told that all I needed to
>purchase was an HP Netserver PII 266 MHz computer with 256 MB ram
>and 3x4 GB hard drives.
>
>When I questioned if that was a strong enough computer for a proxy
>server to serve 2,300 students, where user-validated access will be
>provided to a great host of full-text databases, I was told that "on
>a Novell Border Manager Proxy server the main need will be plenty of
>memory and fast hard drives. This is not a processor intensive
>application but it is a memory and disk intensive application. So,
>the P II/266 MHz should work fine".
>
>Since I have the budget money now to purchase the appropriate server
>and do not want to be caught with insufficient power and access in
>the future, could someone answer if I need to approve this current
>PO or should I push for a faster and better server now.
>
>Jon Sparks
>
>
>Jon Sparks, MLS, Ed.S., Ph.D.
>Dean of Library Services
>Mabee Learning Center
>Oklahoma Baptist University
>500 West University
>OBU Box 61309
>Shawnee, OK  74804
>EMail: jon_sparks at mail.okbu.edu
>Telephone:  (405) 878-2249
>Fax:  (405) 878-2256

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