Need a little advice. Trying to decide how to set things up at home. I have the one desktop which right now does everything at my house. Part time CAD station, email, web server, Photoshop, word, excel, FrontPage, etc... It's a dual P3 machine with 512 megs of ram running windows 2000 pro. Everything is on one 45 gig IBM drive (which I would like to replace anyway).
My website gets relatively low use because it is mainly for my automotive buddies. On nights when I update and add pics, I'll get at the most a couple hundred people.
I also have a spare bx6r2 and a Celeron 300a@504 I could use in another machine.
I was thinking maybe I should set up a spare parts machine as a server for files and the website, connect my desktop to it (probably wired) and a laptop or two (wireless). Not sure if I would really benefit by doing this over just using my desktop to do everything. The desktop doesn?t see heavy CAD/video/pic editing at all. It really is overbuilt. J Maybe I should put the website on it?s one drive in the desktop and not worry about a separate server? I would also kinda like to try out a SCSI drive, but I am not too sure that I really ?need? it. LOL
Come on people; help me spend some money, wisely. My company pays for a 1/3 of technology updates up to $500 total a year, so I could do some upgrades fairly cheap, especially when I keep my eye on the Hot Deals forum. I can usually buy new stuff for the price of used.
Thanks; let me know what additional info you would need.
Oh yeah, when I built my house this summer, I used individual runs of Cat5 from the basement to each phone jack.
My website gets relatively low use because it is mainly for my automotive buddies. On nights when I update and add pics, I'll get at the most a couple hundred people.
I also have a spare bx6r2 and a Celeron 300a@504 I could use in another machine.
I was thinking maybe I should set up a spare parts machine as a server for files and the website, connect my desktop to it (probably wired) and a laptop or two (wireless). Not sure if I would really benefit by doing this over just using my desktop to do everything. The desktop doesn?t see heavy CAD/video/pic editing at all. It really is overbuilt. J Maybe I should put the website on it?s one drive in the desktop and not worry about a separate server? I would also kinda like to try out a SCSI drive, but I am not too sure that I really ?need? it. LOL
Come on people; help me spend some money, wisely. My company pays for a 1/3 of technology updates up to $500 total a year, so I could do some upgrades fairly cheap, especially when I keep my eye on the Hot Deals forum. I can usually buy new stuff for the price of used.
Thanks; let me know what additional info you would need.
Oh yeah, when I built my house this summer, I used individual runs of Cat5 from the basement to each phone jack.
