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Question From a Webserving Noob: Will my webserver eat that ****?

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gregor7777

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Hello. I have a PC kicking around that fits this description: 486 DX/66 w/16MB RAM and a 106 MB HD. It serves very little purpose other than a box to hack around with a very tiny distro (TinyLinux - Slackware 4.0 deriv) .

Now, I'm thinking of starting a small web site and also thinking about this box I've been stubbing my foot on for a year.

It will be a low traffic site but I'm worried that this thing will eat it when more than one person at a time calls up some pages. Any opinions from the gallery?

EDIT : sp
 
Serving up static pages is very very easy on the cpu. On the other hand, if you have a lot of dynamic content, databases, etc, then the server could bog down. Try it and then see. It can't hurt and you'll never find out until you do it.
 
Originally posted by: blstriker
Serving up static pages is very very easy on the cpu. On the other hand, if you have a lot of dynamic content, databases, etc, then the server could bog down. Try it and then see. It can't hurt and you'll never find out until you do it.
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Static mostly. I'll give the old boy a shot. Now, any problems with such a small HD and not having much room for a swap?
 
Try it and see, but with only 16 megs of ram, once it's all used up, it's going to have to start thrashing the disk.
 
Do a search for thttpd on a search engine. It is a very nice webserver for low end hardware and small harddrives. It should run on TinyLinux. For basic static pages, you should be fine. If I were you, I would fire it up and give it a try. I'm pretty sure Steinkeuler of Linux Router Project fame uses a 486 to serve up the LRP pages and it does just fine.

edit: grammar
 
Just dug this up from search...

i had a quesion about a statistics server........... what is its function? What OS do you use for it? Special apps? Can i connect it to my router (and still be able to collect statistics)
Any site where i can get more info on setting up such a server?
 
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