New UNIX Box Lands

Qube 2700D microsever is our latest addition to our Wide Area Network. Acquired from a friend of the company for a special price, the microserver resembles a transparent cube of corian with a cyclops green LED visor in front. Main selling points of this server include a full-fledged build of Linux 2.0, the freeware version of UNIX made popular for it's power and low overhead, and Apache 1.2, most favored web server of busnisses charged with serving large amounts of data in an optimized fashion. Any staff member with any type of compuer can access the Qube. The Qube will be the Qru's second UNIX machine. Our first has FreeBSD installed, the Netware-friendly PC UNIX.

Browser-based administration eliminated the need for a monitor and keyboard to be plugged in to the unit - the webmaster simply logs in and changes what he needs to. As the Qru invests in increasing network speed, the RISC proscessor, UNIX networking protocols, and powerful architecture of this machine will all contribute to enhancing our development cycle. The popular protocol TELNET, often denied to dial-up accounts, will be allowed to simulate a unix environment on the PC.

All administration and maintence needs of the Qube are HTML-based which makes remote administration much easier to handle and accessable through a standard web browser. All pertinent system tasks (monitoring the system, addition/deletion of users and email accounts, etc.) can be handled from the browser. The Qube also runs several diagnostic proscesses (server maintenence programs) to detect potential problems and alert the Qru through email, so the server can be configured to optimal performance.

The power needs of the unit are minimal, requiring only 25 watts at the most. Thats impressive for a machine that has a web performance superior to similarly configured 200MHz Pentium systems. It can easily handle the communication needs of 100 logged-in simultaneous users, and saturate up to six T1 lines (or an entire 10 Base-T network). The machine itself has 64MB DRAM, a 150MHz superscalar RISC microprocessor, and a 2.1GB hard drive.

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