Help Me build a SERVER. I have a Few Questions.

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Purvin

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I am getting 3mbit dsl soon (Static IP). I want to make some money from it. What do you recommend? I need help with building a server and what i should do like setup web server or what?

I have linux / windows 2000 server bought and also have old copies of NT4 Server too. What do you recommend?

I have 300gb of storage now ready to go.

I need help in choosing
MOTHERBOARD
PROCESSOR (AMD, XEON, P3, P2 Etc.)
MEMORY TYPE (DDR, SDRAM, RAMBUS etc.)
Software etc. Please help if you can.
Case & Power Supply (300watt, 400 or 530watt).

Email Me please. [email]purvinv@hotmail.com[/email]

I want somethign that don't takeup too much time to maintain because i am still in college. I have right now a P2-400 256 MB Ram 300gb hd. But now i want to start hosting pages or something and i guess i need a BETTER & FASTER SERVER for that stuff. Want to Start a small web hosting thing and charge people some $$$ to host pages and hopefully this will help pay for college & dsl.

MY BUDGET IS MAX OF $1400. I already have the Hard Drive.

THANKS
PURVIN VAKHARWALA
Email Me please. [email]purvinv@hotmail.com[/email]

 
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Usul

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PIII with i840 and rambus.....
Lookks good.
Take a look at the Anandtech dream machine configuration, and take that mobo.Redundant PS, might need LOTS of watts, what is your hdd configuration? RAID? External RAID?
SLED? :)
 
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Poof

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<< I have linux / windows 2000 server bought and also have old copies of NT4 Server too. What do you recommend? >>



If you're serious, get FreeBSD. It is what powers the internet (ie., has the highest % of installed net servers and powers sites like Yahoo!)
 
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RoadRuner

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A pentium 100 server mostly static pages, will saturate your bandwidth..

If you're going to do Windows, with asp/sql etc, you'll need the biggest baddest box around.


(Btw, windows hosting is not nearly as profitable as unix hosting, if you haven't figured that out yet).
 
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Packet

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I agree with poof,
If you really want to make money, you need to be in their with some form of *nix. FreeBSD would be the top choice, but Linux would not be bad either (debian is very good). If you want to just host webpages, then no doubt about it go with appache http://www.appache.org .
 
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Purvin

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Should i even bother with DUAL P3 then or just stick to AMD i want stable machine. IS AMD STABLE and if so what motherboard i want raid and redundand.

Can you explain what redudant is is that in motherboard or waht.. (i want to have a backup ps INCASE one goes bad.

THANKS
 
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err

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I wouldn't go dual CPU if I were you. I might consider getting a board with dual CPU capability, but not buying 2 CPUs rite away. Unless if you know that your server will be resource constraint right after you've built it.

AMD doesn't offer dual CPU capability, so your option is stuck with Intel.

AMD is super stable in my experience. I have experience running few web servers with K6-2 and they are fine.

I would get Athlon 800 if I were you and couple it with MSI KT7-PRO2. Best combo for AMD cpus nowadays.

Instead of depending on the mobo for RAID capabilities and limiting your option, you are better off buying a RAID card. It seems like you don't have that big of a budget constraint, given that you've considered XEON ;)


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err

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oh yeah , if you really want to make money, don't make an overkill system first hand ;P

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slax

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i dont know... 3mbit... thats not so much.. i think you will be able to do it with your p2. if you allready have the diskspace on it.... i REALLY wouldn't know what could overload a 400mhz 256mb server and freeBSD on a 3mbit line....

its 375 kilobyte/second.. damn.... with the right settings my p200mmx could take that on. i mean... why spend a lot of money on a thunderbird800 that will be in use for maybe 20% of the time and maybe.... MAYBE needs to run at full speed doing somekind of HUGE sql query or something..... for less then 1% of the time.. mostly its standing there being expensive.

once you've made some money and your server is bringing it in at a constant rate [don't expect you are going to spend all your 375kbyte every second of the day when you have just started up] you could put up a faster machine... but right now i don't see a reason too.

it's going to be more of a fileserver/webserver/ftp right?

 
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