server questions

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday, May 12, 2011, Yu Meng Chong wrote:
> Anyway, let us know how the Zotac box performs! I heard some awful 
> stuff about Intel Atoms, and that the cooling still requires a CPU 
> fan. But I am very curious to know if it is capable enough to be a 
> server of any kind! 

I'm running an Atom box (1.80Ghz,  4GB quad cpu)   as an email, spam, and 
firewall server and main server to my internet connection.   Haven't seen any 
problems with it at all, and I know that Spamassassin takes quite a bit of 
cycles.   Before that I ran  an Atom  1.6Ghz, 2GB,  dual cpu and the 
performance as a server was the same.  Both boxes have a small cpu fan.

BTW, I use shorewall as a firewall and it is pretty easy to make it do what I 
want and therefore,  I haven't bothered to dig into iptables all that much.