Need some advice for some webserver

[Zorba]

Well I am about to move away to college where I'll have a high speed interenet connection. Because of this I am thinking about running my own webserver. I would more than likely just server a webpage for myself and a few other people, and will likely also have a private FTP server running on it too. Mostly I just want the experience messing around with a server.

Right now I am most concerned about what hardware I should get.
I am thinking a PII or K6-3 around 500MHz or so, with about 256MB of ram. Just one IDE 7200RPM HDD. Then crappy video, CD-Rom, no sound, etc.

I will probably run linux on this box, also, so if you have any suggestion for that let me know.

Do you all think that this setup would work well enough? (considering that I am expecting a very low number of hits?)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Yes.

 

[jkukowsk]

<< Well I am about to move away to college where I'll have a high speed interenet connection. Because of this I am thinking about running my own webserver. I would more than likely just server a webpage for myself and a few other people, and will likely also have a private FTP server running on it too. Mostly I just want the experience messing around with a server. >>



Make sure you college lets you host a website.



<< Right now I am most concerned about what hardware I should get.
I am thinking a PII or K6-3 around 500MHz or so, with about 256MB of ram. Just one IDE 7200RPM HDD. Then crappy video, CD-Rom, no sound, etc. >>



That's fine seeing as you won't be getting 10,000 hits a day.



<< I will probably run linux on this box, also, so if you have any suggestion for that let me know.
>>


Redhat, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, SuSe if it's Linux it works.



<< Do you all think that this setup would work well enough? (considering that I am expecting a very low number of hits?) >>


Yes, minded that your college lets you host that site.

 

[Goosemaster]

It isn't so much that they won't WANT TO let you(as in monitoring....but that they have blocked all ports...here at my univ, you can't and if someone you do, you're toast...

if you run a server here however, it will still work on the lan..but not on the internet..

 

[watts3000]

Well I attend the university of alabama at Birmingham. As a part time job I've helped monitor the dorms for the last 2 years. The biggest problem most schools have is people downloading mp3's and videos from kazaa and morpheus. We have installed some packet shaping software in order to throttle bandwidth. We have know proble with students running webservers as long as they are not getting 10,000 hits a day. Our department manger encourages computer science ,computer engineering majors ,and management information systems majors to run there own servers. For there own learning experience. Of course the students also has to take proper security measures when running there site. Before I moved off campus I ran my own personnel site it was great especially when taking web programming classes where you had projects.