On Tue Nov 02 1999 at 16:13, "Stephen Liu" wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> If my request is off topic, please accept my apologize.
>
> I am new to Web server and is now preparing to assemble a machine at
> moderate cost running on Linux, to serve a small community at start
> estimated about 80-100 people.
This is a very small demand for a web server, so keeping this in
mind...
> I shall be much appreciated to receive some advice on its configuration as
> follows;
>
> 1) Motherboard
> - Single CPU or Dual?
single.
> - Whether with build-in scsi or plug-in scsi card is preferred and its
> manufacturer. The latter will be flexible.
Doesn't matter, whatever's cheapest.
> - some people told me that ATA 66 also runs fast. It may serve my purpose
> at lower cost. Is this comment established?
Go for cost.
> 2) CPU
> - Use Pt II or Pt III, Celeron or AMD K6-2, K6-3 or K7 and its clock speed
Anything over a 350 should do the trick. It's not going to be pushed
too hard.
> 3) Hard disc
> - Ultra-wide scsi or scsi-2, capacity, cache memory/buffer and its speed,
> rpm
With such a small community to serve, an IDE drive would do it easily.
In many ways, scsi is overkill.
> - Can the same hard disc be used to keep login diary or an additional hard
> disc working as slave is necessary.
Yes.
> 4) Connection to Internet
> - T1 or T3 and speed.
Whatever is cheapest.
> - During testing period prior to leasing a line whether telephone line can
> be used for testing
>
> 5) Can also a Web Server be used as ISP (Mail) server
Yes.
> 6) Any recommendation on software:
> - Apache or any others
apache is cheap.
> - Is box available on market
any linux distribution.
> 7) Any recommendation on RAID and its utils
They work. Hardware raid5 is overkill for your purposes.
I have administered a very busy public web server running linux redhat
(5.0,5.1,5.2), 64Mb ram, 233Mb P-IImmx, 3x6Gb hard drives. Also
running samba, mail, majordomo, nfs server.
It ran for months at a time with hardly a hiccup, let alone a burp.
The sort of hardware you are considering is overkill, but if you've
got the bucks then overkill won't hurt any.
Just keep in min that this is not mickyslop-nt land. Heck, I recon
you could do what you want with a standard linux distribution on a
P100 with 64Mb ram :)
Cheers
Tony
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