On Saturday 03 February 2001 04:36, John Hinsley wrote:
> > > > I want to install my personal server on a old Intel 486 machine,
> > > > 36 Mb RAM, 2 Gb HardDisk, VGA, to develop in PHP. What version of
> > Well, you'll have great trouble getting several 100k hits per day on
> > a home server, so a small machine completely suffices :)
>
> Yes, yes. But you assume that our friend wants to use the 486 box as an
> Intranet server, to run cgi and php scripts on, and punt out HTML
> documents to the rest of his network, and pretty much that alone.
>
> I simply was _not_ prepared to make that assumption, which is why I
> asked for more detail :-0
Point taken :)
> If you're going to the hastle of building a home network, you might
> consider using the more powerful machine as an all singing, all dancing
> fileserver, application server and intranet server (pick your choice)!
Well, my home server is a wimpy P90 with 48MB RAM. It serves as web
server (all my technical docs, php website testing, more), web cache
(WWWoffle), web filter (junkbuster), file server (nfs and samba),
masquerading internet gateway, firewall, mail server (also processing my
pretty big .procmailrc), print server and propably also something else :)
Ah, yes. MySQL for my php stuff also runs on it.
The only problem I have with its performance is that it's only connected
to my other machines via 10 MBit ethernet (well, and the ram is a bit on
the low side). The processor's limits aren't reached by a long shot.
> The 486 could be used as a Windows box connected to the server and/or
> as an X client (in which case 32Mb of RAM would be just fine).
I'd say a combination of good text editor + browser requires more
resources than a apache+PHP+mysql in such a scenario. And don't forget
that you have to sit in front of the development (client) box all day and
getting a decent graphics card for a 486 is *hard*
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