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Re: Upgrade path

A counterpoint with respect to Am Samtag. Most of us never used the
mailserver function of ASIP as better products were available. ISPs could get this
whole email thing off our backs anyway. We have both OSX servers and ASIP servers.
ASIP is child's play to maintain, is equally as fast given like hardware,
isn't prone to virus attacks like OSX or funky permission/security issues and is
significantly cheaper in hardware demands as most any old box can do a decent
job with it. ASIP works extremely well with enough ram. Some of our servers
have more than a year now of continous uptime-unless we had to do any planned
downtimes for maintenance. Our largest ASIP server sees 250 users and has 4-5
bay external cabinents with 5-36 Gb SCSI drives on LVD 160 dual channel cards.

2000 Server is also a less costly solution. That even runs well at 128Mb or
ram on a PII350 which an office of ours with 55 PC users and 4 macs. X-Serve
didn't rate all that well in recent issues of Network World I believe it was or
Cnet reviews-3 of 5 stars. In a like hardware test-XServe would not be a
glowing performer, especially if basic file serving is your real need.

My two cents.

Marc
In a message dated 09/08/2003 01:51:01 PM,
email@hidden writes:

<< Doug,

the older Mac OS 9/ASIP combinations have several problems. Many of
them have been fixed with Mac OS 9.2.2 and ASIP 6.3.3. But the
relay-problem in the mailserver will never be fixed, because ASIP is a
dead product and out of development.
We have made the switch to Mac OS X Server with version 10.2.5 (now
10.2.6). Its a complete new world and i had to learn a lot of new
things, but i would never go back. Performance is great and our servers
dont crash. Performance of the mailserver should be better and it is
missing some features. If I were you I would wait for 10.3 server
(Panther) which will be released before the end of this year and has a
better mailserver and than switch to X.
Your hardware is not the latest and greatest but still OK for X. Put in
some more RAM (512 MB Minimum, more is better), because OS X is eating
RAM for lunch and RAM is cheap today. :-)
A new harddisk is recommended as well. Todays disks are very cheap and
much faster than the original disks supplied with your G4-PCI.
One of our servers is running on a G4/500 and it is doing a good job,
but the new XServe is a lot faster, of course. It just depends on what
you are doing...

Am Samstag, 06.09.03 um 07:00 Uhr schrieb
email@hidden:

> From: Doug <email@hidden>
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: Upgrade path
>
> Hi,
> Was wondering if anyone would care to comment on the migration path I
> would like to do,
> since some of you have probably have been there.
> Currently I'm running a small straight Apple network/server at one
> location.
> My server is an older G4 PowerMac PCL Graphic with only 10gb of space
> and I'm running
> out of it. Also am running OS9.0 and ASIP 6.3.0. Not much runs on the
> server besides Retrospect
> and a calandar program and our e-mail. I have few problems with this
> current environment.
> Anyway I'm trying to figure our a next step of upgrade.
> Since the price of a new G4 is so low, I'm thinking of getting that
> instead of putting more $'s into
> the current one. With all the problems I've seen with ASIP I'm not sure
> what software level I should
> go to. Is OS 9.2.2 and ASIP 6.3.3 worth going to or go newer?
> Everytime I upgrade software those that still cover 9.2.2 or less are
> getting fewer and fewer.
> Your comments would be appreciated.
> Doug
>

Jan
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