Jason Wertz on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 19:40:15 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] Web Server Hardware


I agree that you can use a cheap second hand machine for such a light load, but you should consider a new box if uptime and the data being served is critical so you avoid hardware failure issues. You could build a duron/thunderbird system from the ground up real cheap. 

I haven't really played around with it yet so I'm not real sure what works but you could even implement an IDE raid solution for cheap data redundency. I have a promise IDE Raid controller on my Asus A7V133 that I want to try and get set up when I have some time and I paid like $100 for the board (once again if it is supported...just a suggestion). A quick look here makes me think this really isn't too much of a problem if you only want RAID 1 or 0. 
http://www.research.att.com/~gjm/linux/ide-raid.html

Anyway, you can get a lot of features for next to nothing and know that all of the hardware is new and under some type of warranty.



Jason Wertz
Senior Technology Specialist / WebMaster
Delaware County Community College




>>> turgon@mike-leone.com 01/11/02 12:51PM >>>
> I forgot to mention that I will also be running an email server on the
same
> box.  Our current setup is as an IMAP server and I would like to keep it
that
> way.  Do the suggestions still hold?

I run Apache as web server; ProFTPD as FTP server; postfix as SMTP (only)
server. So pretty much, yeah. :-)
Your biggest problem will probably be bandwidth, for the video content.

For your static pages, you can check out my page -
http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon - for response time. There's not a whole
lot there, except for scanned photos. Bear in mind; I have a 640K down/90 up
DSL - so the web server can only push pages out to you at 90K.


> > I'm serving up static webpages from my house on a P1-133, 96M RAM. The
> > original poster said probably 50 hits a day; maybe 200. That box should
> > handle it (except for perhaps the video content).
> >
> > $50 or so, for a 2nd hand system like that? I paid $90 a couple yrs ago,
and
> > could have gotten it for less.



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