-- Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 08:58 PM -0600): > I am ready to set up my own Web Server rather than paying my friends each month. > > Your IT guidance would be appreciated. I have a dusty Pentium 90 with > 32 MB Ram, and a 1 GB Drive. The new unit will be equipped with Debian > Woody, on a static DSL IP address without any firewall. Will this > meager equipment serve as a village (community) static page web > server and mail server for about 1 dozen people? Would I need > something more to run zope or drupal? If possible, I'd up the ram and hard drive slightly -- mainly for the mail. But otherwise, it should be fine. I'm running mine on a P-200 with 64MB and two hard drives (1 2GB and 1 3GB), and it does quite nicely (I run a couple sites off it, and receive mail for a handful of people; currently, my /home directory is mounted on the 2GB drive and holds my web document root and all mail -- and has only 12% usage). It even serves as a firewall (using iptables) and an IMAP server (allowing for remote connection for mail retrieval).
If you want to run a database backend for a CMS (if I remember correctly, that's what drupal is, right?), you'll need even more RAM -- my machine slowed noticably when I've run mysql in the past. But it's certainly do-able on this hardware, and the ram for these machines is still fairly easily obtainable and cheap. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
