Re: Advice - solution for a company server
From: Shadus (shadus_at_shadus.org)
Date: 09/26/05
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:03:12 -0500
On 2005-09-26, Soft <happsz> blabbed:
> I need to estabiilish a new solution for my company (rather small). We now
> need a company server that should handle 10 workstations - to provide users
> with opportuninty of sharing their project files and to set their own e-mail
> accounts on it. We already have a proper machine (as I was told), but I
> don't know which software will be good enough for this task, and of course
> it shall be not expensive - we are only interested in the genuine software.
I'm not quite sure what "the genuine software" is, but I assume you mean
legitimately licensed software. For an office of that size Windows
Small Business Server 2003 should work fine. Mind your are
significantly limiting your future expansion with WSBS2003 it is missing
alot of the advanced features even windows server 2003 provides.
> My colleagues told me about some Linux OS, but we don't want to pay for the
> server administration right now, and no-one in my team knows this systems.
> Can you help me to choose a right software?
Linux is free, economically speaking, you can generally download a free
copy directly from the website of the company who is providing it (eg:
Redhat, Debian, Slackware, etc.) Most of the services that run ontop of
Linux are also free software (eg: Sendmail, Apache, courier-*, Samba, etc.)
> Shall Windows Small Business Server 2003 be a good solution (can a common
> computer user operate it?), or do we really need an adminitrator to handle
> one of the Unix systems?
Windows is probally somewhat easier because it's entirely graphically
configurable. *nix of any variety is probally somewhat more
maintainable in the long run due to it being flat text for most configs.
Regardless which system you choose you need a competant admin. If you
go with windows you should get someone at least familar with managing a
small network and applying security patches and getting some basic
degree of security on the system. If you hire a *nix admin the same
basic requirements need to be met.
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