Webserver

[andrew2022]

just curious but wot wud u need 2 host ur own website? wot o/s, net connection, hardware specs etc?

[Lamsey]

Probably something like win2000 pro or w2k3 server, a reasonably fast computer, a very fast HDD (prob. SCSI), and at least a T3 connection.

[Terminal Boredom]

It depends on the application. Will you be running SQL heavy scripting? My webserver is a Sun Cobalt Qube 2 from ebay. It cost about 200$ U.S. and is pretty easy to use. I plan on building a Linux box running Mandrake 9 and Apache as a web server. The important thing is HD access time. A 233Mhz proc would be fine for a personal web page. Another consideration is you upload b/w, do you have enough? Do you have a static or dynamic IP address?

A good site to check out is DSL/Cable Webserver

[balamm]

Lamsey, you don't need a T3, I've done it on 2mb cable before they capped uploads.

Also ran a very large warez site off several 5400 rpm drives for over six months.

There are a lot of small web sites still running on P2 processors.

[Terminal Boredom]

Yep, mines offa cable modem and a Qube2 with a 5400rpm hd and 128 meg of pc100 ram.

[Cl1mh4224rd]

This setup seems to work for Slashdot.

The actual pipe is pproximately 100Mbits out and 200mbits coming in.

Type I (web server)
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VA Full On 2x2
Debain Linux frozen
PIII/600 Mhz 512K cache
1 GB RAM
9.1GB LVD SCSI w/ hot swap backplane
Intel EtherExpress Pro (built-in on moboard)
Intel EtherExpress 100 adapter

Type II (kernel NFS w/ kernel locking)
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VA Full On 2x2
Debian Linux frozen
Dual PIII/600 Mhz
2 GB RAM
(2) 9.1GB LVD SCSI w/ hot swap backplane
Intel EtherExpress Pro (built-in on moboard)
Intel EtherExpress 100 adapter

Type III (DB)
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VA Research 3500
Red Hat Linux 6.2 (final release + tweaks)
Quad Xeon 550 Mhz, 1MB cache
2 GB RAM
6 LVD disks, 10000 RPM (1 system disk, 5 disks for RAID5)
Mylex Extreme RAID controller 16 MB cache
Intel EtherExpress Pro (built-in on moboard)
Intel EtherExpress 100 adapter

Keep in mind, though... "Slashdot serves 50 million pages per month."