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Name components to build a robust webserver

Well, you need a case and a motherboard and some memory and defintiely lots of hard drive space...
 
How affordable do you want it? sub 1000, sub 2000?


Personally, it depends on what you are using it for. Just webserving or databases etc. That makes a big difference.
 
check here

ace's just did their server over and go thru why they use what they use.

edit:
and after reading your question again, i reccommend going with dual p3's and a raid0 or raid5 if you could afford that.
the abit vp6 supports dual p3's and 2 gigs of ram and its under $150. i have 2 of them and have had no problems at all with them. and if your not a *nix person, apache for windows runs great. im using it and just learning php and mysql.

later,

JB
 
I'm seriously considering trying Mandrake Linux as my next server's OS. I've been hearing a lot about how well it works as a server platform. PM me if you want a fast mirror to download the CD images from
 


<< Any ideas? I want affordable components. Please do not suggest SUN. >>



Don't tell me what to do....
GET A SUN!
Seriously....I got a SparcStation 10 for $50, quad processor upgrade for $30. Solaris and linux are both free, and the things are very stable.
You can get some pretty sharp sun boxen for under $500.

But as others said, it's really a matter of what you plan on doing with it.
 
If you want to stay on the lower price end of things, you could set up an ABIT VP6 board (less than $100) with two P3 chips and a bunch of RAM. That should be pretty stable and have enough horsepower for a small server. More details would help us give you more specific suggestions.

Fausto
 


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<< Any ideas? I want affordable components. Please do not suggest SUN. >>



Don't tell me what to do....
GET A SUN!
Seriously....I got a SparcStation 10 for $50, quad processor upgrade for $30. Solaris and linux are both free, and the things are very stable.
You can get some pretty sharp sun boxen for under $500.

But as others said, it's really a matter of what you plan on doing with it. >>



Sounds sweet. Where did you get the Sun equipment from?
 
Like everyone said, it depends on your budget and what it's used for.

I'll take it this will just be a plain webserver box (no dns, no mail, no ftp, etc, just http/www serving). For static pages get at least a P500 or a Celeron 500 and minimum of 256mb of RAM (OS dependent, if you have Win2k the more the better).

Depending on the traffic you're expecting you can stick with IDE drives, 7200rpm with 2mb buffer is preferable. For higher demands go for SCSI/RAID or IDE/RAID. For extremely high demands you can also get a caching RAID controller (64mb minimum).

A good NIC is a must. However i noticed, after 2 years of hosting those Netgear and Linksys NIC's work just fine.

For your reference, the first ever server i used (and is working flawlessly up to now) is the following:

HP Pavilion (Yep, the home computer) Celeron 500
64 MB RAM (since i bought it i've already upgraded to 384mb)
15 GB 5400 rpm drive
Netgear NIC

I got the whole system refurb for $300 a couple of years ago.

Believe it or not, this baby handles approximately 500mb of traffic (on average) a day and handles FTP/DNS/Mail/WWW for over 130 domains.

Never slowed down a bit. 🙂
 
Ok. I'm a newbie, and I've been using my computer to run a webserver, a database server and at the same time I was doing my development. I would like a machine that would be able to support a webserver and a database server at the same time, so that if I have to reboot my current machine, people can still access the webpages that I'm serving 🙂

I am doing some developments with J2EE. And you guys know how Java is like 'crunching nuts'. I mean its pretty slow sometimes. So, I'd like some hardware that can crunch those nuts. 🙂

Thx for the suggestions so far. I am still doing my research so that I can talk about more technical terms with you.
 


<< check here

ace's just did their server over and go thru why they use what they use.

edit:
and after reading your question again, i reccommend going with dual p3's and a raid0 or raid5 if you could afford that.
the abit vp6 supports dual p3's and 2 gigs of ram and its under $150. i have 2 of them and have had no problems at all with them. and if your not a *nix person, apache for windows runs great. im using it and just learning php and mysql.

later,

JB >>



I would stay away from VP6. Despite what their site says, everything I have read says the boards cannot use ECC memory. ECC is a little more important in servers, although with today's hardware Im not so sure it makes that much of a difference. Also, do a search on groups.google.com for vp6. There have been plenty of users with problems with the board. To get mine to boot off of CDROM, I need the cdrom drive as master on the primary IDE controller and the hard drive as master on the secondary ide drive. Im not so sure how 2.2 linux kernels will handle the High point controller, but if I install Debian Ill find out. 😛
 
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