Complete noob...

[runman]

If you are in the financial sector and want to look up how OpenBSD can help
(w/ CARP, etc) Google for Mark Uemura.  He wrote/ gave an interview on doing
for a very large firm in Japan.  He (like many others) was easily reached
when I had some comments on it.  Good chap.

-- Greg Canter 

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From: openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org
[mailto:openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org] On Behalf Of George Goodman
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 11:58 PM
To: openbsd-newbies at sfobug.org
Subject: Re: Complete noob...

Thank you all for your very helpful comments and friendly assistance, I am
sure we will all be happy together :)

Just a bit of background -

I come from a windows background, currently hosting on w2k, apache2,
coldfusion, interbase/firebird...

I program and manage the sytems, network etc. so have general all round
knowledge. I have an engineering degree, so should be able to learn new
stuff.

Boss doesn't want to pay big bucks for upgrades and I have convinced him to
go to OpenBSD, php 5, mysql (must be ver 5, we need transactions, stored
proc etc.). The catch is that I must do it all if I want it, so been burning
midnight oil lately.

We have netscreen firewall devices so for now that side of things is sorted,
but I will be trying to duplicate all of the following on the new systems:

Secure web site cluster (financial services so stakes are high) with load
balancing/redundancy for max uptime even during maintenance.

DB cluster (need redundancy as above) plus replication.

Stand alone mail server (from research would prefer Qmail over Sendmail, but
can I remove sendmail from OpenBSD easily?)

We only host manage our own stuff on our own servers, so there are no
outside users to worry about. I am sure that all of this must be possible
with OBSD, but if any of you see any problems, please let me know so I can
look elsewhere if I am on the wrong track here.
I have budget for new hardware, so legacy systems can operate while I play
with the new stuff.

I have not planned to set up X on the servers because I really don't see the
need, but if any of you can show me what the advantages would be to do so I
will.

Thanks again for all your help so far, and I will be working through all the
stuff you guys have sent me. I am sure I will be back with more questions
soon.

Best,

GG
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