</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by sderaj:
<strong>I am looking to get an XServe but I had some questions from real people, not sales representatives. Would be safe to use an XServe as an e-mail, web and file server? I heard it is best to buy different machines, like one for a web server, one for an e-mail server, etc. What are all of your thoughts? Thanks guys...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">You may want to consider having a file server on a separate machine that is only accessible from your internal network. I would be wary of having a machine for storing internal company files on that can be subjected to denial of service attacks and spam and whatnot. If you meant for intranet email and and web services, I don't see why not.
Of course, there's always a factor of the load you need for each of these services. If you're small and don't have demanding requirements, the machine will handle it fine.
FWIW, my organization's web site and email services run on the same machine (Pentium IV 1.4 GHz w/ 512 MB RAM running NetBSD), sitting in a co-lo in San Jose. We do about 3-5 GB of traffic/month. File services are internal to the intranet, spread across three machines; all machines use NAT and have non-routable IP addresses for the rest of the world. The only point of access is a Linux NAT box.
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