Building a home server using spare parts. Need advise.

[Rob94hawk]

I have my domain registered and I will use my broadband service with www.no-ip.com so I wont have to rent webspace. My upload speeds are over 900kbps.

I have a few spare parts lying around and I was wondering if they will be sufficient for a webserver: 1.6Ghz socket 478, 128MB & 64MB PC100 ram, 13GB hard drive, 9600 Radeon.

As for the OS and other stuff I was told that any Linux based OS, apache, and php is good for hosting your own home website.

This is all new to me so I'm ready to dive in and listen to any advise from all the gurus.

Thanx, Rob

 

[Rob94hawk]

Edit: With the cpu that I have since it's only a 400fsb I'm limited to a mobo with 100Mbps networking speeds. Is this sufficient?

 

[WackyDan]

It's more than sufficient... You are not going to be dealing with a high traffic server, and the network interface doesn't really matter given that you are on a broadband connection.

 

[Topweasel]

Dependant how how much activity you see you might want to look at more memory and maybe a faster hard drive. But as pointed out earlier your Upload speed is so small then none of those will affect performance to much.

 

[Kenazo]

I ran a 50 member forum off an old Duron 800 or something for a year on my slow DSL connection (40KB/S up) and it worked like a charm. Unless you're getting thousands of hits a day you'll be more than fine.

 

[imported_rod]

Should be good. More RAM may help, but try it and see how it goes before shelling out any cash. It should run alright.

RoD

 

[JDCentral]

Yeah.. basic web server will be fine.
Hell, my PII 266 system ran a small web server with mysql/php/perl/apache for a few years... I mean, it was SLOW, but it was rediculously slow.

EDIT: For a computer that is JUST a webserver, I'd recommend a *BSD-based OS over linux, any day.

Unless you already know a lot about linux, vs. BSD.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Rob94hawk
Edit: With the cpu that I have since it's only a 400fsb I'm limited to a mobo with 100Mbps networking speeds. Is this sufficient?

That doesn't even make sense.

 

[CreativeTom]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Rob94hawk
Edit: With the cpu that I have since it's only a 400fsb I'm limited to a mobo with 100Mbps networking speeds. Is this sufficient?

That doesn't even make sense.

No not at all....but it did make me laugh when I tried to think about it....lol

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: CreativeTom

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Rob94hawk
Edit: With the cpu that I have since it's only a 400fsb I'm limited to a mobo with 100Mbps networking speeds. Is this sufficient?

That doesn't even make sense.

No not at all....but it did make me laugh when I tried to think about it....lol

I suspect that he's saying that all the mobo's for S478 CPU's only have onboard 10/100 lan, not gigabit. But he's still drawing some poor conclusions.

 

[Rob94hawk]

Sheesh, it was 4am when I wrote this. Cut me some slack.

And kenazo got what I meant.

Thanx for the help too.