Webserver

[trickster]

I am thinking of setting up a small web server using DynDNS. It would house only things like personal webpages, so I don't think it would have much traffic. Anyone has an idea what would be the minimum hardware requirements for such a server to run smoothly?

[cloverm]

The question is what percentage of the pages served will be static html vs. dynamically generated (cgi, php, etc.). Obviously, dynamically generated pages will eat up a lot more resources. I have and AMD K6-300 box with 128MB RAM serving some very low traffic websites. It serves the static pages just fine, but rather slow on cgi.

[trickster]

I think it would have hardly any dynamic pages, since I barely know how to use Perl or an other web language. Perhaps later when I learn more.
I have an extra box just like that at home. I guess that will be its destiny then.
OpenBSD or Linux?

[cloverm]

[quote author=trickster link=board=3;threadid=4730;start=#47069 date=1030382822]
OpenBSD or Linux?
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I think that only depends on which one you're more familiar with ...

[trickster]

Linux I guess. Though I'd like to try BSD sometime.

[gmoreno]

Well I am currently hosting http://esclavosoy.com With my old AMD 166 MHZ. My server is not accesed a lot but it performes a lot of things. It is a webserver, mailserver, fileserver, and printserver and on top of that i rundgnome@home.

You could proably get away with a 486 system if it is stricly your webserver and you only serve basic html pages.

I experimented with an old 486 DX4 100MHZ I installed PHP-Nuke and it was slow but I suppose because of php and mysql.

For low traffice like my site a low end pentium will due. You might get ok results from a 486.

Just my two cents.

[trickster]

Allright. I will give it a try.
Thanks.

[Compunuts]

My Webserver/gateway/samba/mail/ssh

P 233 with 256 MB of RAM

Debian Woody minimal install with IceWM as my X server. No slowdown at all.