On Aug 17, 2005, at 2:54 PM, yuri wrote:
It's time to teach myself a bit of PHP and MySQL.
For $20 I can get a P166 with 64MB RAM and a few gigs of HD from
Molten Media.
My first project will be a little addressbook webapp (that's not too
ambitious is it?)
Depends on what kind of feature level you're looking for ;) Start
small & simple then add more features as you learn.
What would be the minimum hardware requirement? Would the $20 box
suffice?
I've been running PHP and MySQL on a P133 with 64Mb with no
problems. Until today that has been my primary server and it was
also running Squid, Apache, Samba, Subversion, etc. Yes, memory was
tight.
phpMyAdmin (I highly recommend this package) ran a little slow on
that machine but it was perfectly usable. It might be better for you
because you're likely to have more free RAM than I did. FWIW it's
much snappier on my "new" P2-400 with 128Mb :)
Also, what distro would be installable on that, with Apache, MySQL
and PHP.
Anything where you can leave out X11 entirely - no need to waste the
disk space if you don't need it... my personal choice is Slackware
but that's largely due to familiarity. I've been using it since
version..... 3.2 I think. Maybe slightly earlier (remembering the
days of installing off floppies and editing XF86Config by hand).
- Dave
