[olug] support costs. for Linux

[Mike Peterson]

If he is looking to use Squid, is most of your traffic incoming?
People looking up info and such.
If you use the cable for the incoming usage and keep the T1 for necessary in
and out business only use you would not possibly need Squid.
My experience with cable is that you get 1 to 2 T1 of bandwidth inbound and
only 256 to 512K outbound.
I f you have fiber access you can get faster outbound.
The standard cable is cheaper that most standard T1 pricing depending on the
number of users.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Walker" <linux_user at grax.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] support costs. for Linux


> Is your traffic mostly outgoing?
>
> You might consider getting a cable modem or DSL to handle some or all of
> the outgoing traffic and leave the T1 to handle the incoming traffic.
>
> On Thursday 04 October 2001 03:40 pm, Schmeits, Roger wrote:
> > What are typical support costs for Linux servers???  I have a quote from
> > Caldera for a 5 pack at $1650 or per server is $3130 per year.  SUSE is
> > $400 per incident.  This will be for Apache, Squid, content filtering at
> > the packet level, MRTG packages running on Redhat, SUSE or Solaris.  We
run
> > all Compaq machines and I am limited to these three operating systems.
> >
> > Would anyone like to expand on/share your experiences?  I have strong
> > windows background and have been playing with Linux for about one year.
I
> > have installed most Linux distros in one degree or another.  Caldera
seems
> > to work as well as anything for us here.  I don't not feel comfortable
just
> > throwing a machine without a high degree of success.  I am not the
> > brightest bulb in the room but I will not kill my career without some
type
> > of support system underneath me.  Hopefully within the next two years I
can
> > wean myself of any support contact but initially it is a necessity.  I
> > already threw the idea at my boss and he seemed to be ok with my idea.
> >
> > Currently we have a T1 that is pretty well soaked during the day and am
> > looking a SQUID to allieviate the problem.  Or at least knock the top
20%
> > of the traffic through our ISP.  I have one Compq ML370 1G CPU with 500M
> > ram. Plenty of disk space to boot.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> >
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