Moving to Intel

Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:08:53 -0400
To: csuite-dev <csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca>
From: Eric Howland <ehowland@uwex.edu>

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Recently DANEnet has had some security concerns (shell access not unlike the
recent messages to the list) and our hosts University of Wisconsin Extension
has asked that we move to a separate machine (DANEnet and the UWEX web
server were sharing the same AIX box).  It seems very likely that this new
machine will be Intel. At the time we move, I would like to move to csuite.
Since version 5+ runs on both Linux and Solaris I wonder if there is a
consensus about  Solaris for Intel vs. Linux.  

My gut response is that there are many more resources for Linux available.
But about a year ago a graduate student who had helped us said that he had
some experience that tended toward Solaris for a production machine.  A
calendar year is a lot of net years and I wonder what experience csuite
users have had.  Also, if most of you are using one system, it seems like a
benefit to be on the same platform. 

I also am trying to determine the specifications for the machine.  We have a
small system by freenet standards with hundreds of users rather than
thousands and currently only 16 telephone lines.   Our Web server gets about
400,000 hits /month recently.   I believe that the increased functionality
of csuite would increase those numbers.   

Eric 


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