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Minimum specs for a web server?

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th3rmite

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I'm thinking of hosting my own website, nothing big, and I was wodering if any of you know what would be a good minimum spec for a web server. I'd also lke to use it for mail too.

Thanks
Jeff
 
Hell, older Cobalt Raq's run off AMD K6 500MHz CPU's with 256MB of RAM and it supports apache, PHP, MySQL and just about everything else.
 
Depends on how much traffic you expect, if its minimal, that old P3 you may have lying around would work just fine. But if you are gunning for slashdot, stock up on the quads ;)

If you use a lower end machine for a small site, bump up its RAM some, and you'll be all set. I used a similar setup (800mhz p3) for a company intranet site and it was way more than adaquate.
 
if it will only be your personal web page...I think the minimum specs would be a net connection. it doesn't take much to send out files. I image an PII 400 would be min specs for a personal web page w/ 256MB of ram...windows tweaked to run on less memory as well.
 
You can really get by with a low end machine for a web server. If you want to have a bit of fun, take a look at the Linksys NSLU2. Several folks have hacked these, like here for example.
 
As long as you are not looking at getting to much traffic you can get by with a pretty low end system. I'm running a linux ftp and web server off and old overclocked celeron 366 with 364mb of ram and it works fine for me and my dozen odd friends that have access to it.
 
As a reference, a small company I used to work for ran a website on a Dell dual PIII 733 with 512 MB ram and 4 10K rpm 9GB scsi drives in raid 5. This was a midrange server at the time. It easily served 1 million hits/day (peak) with a full T1 connection. Exchange 2000 was on this same hardware sending and receiving thousands of emails each day.
 
Also, I ran a personal website for a while on an old 486 sx 33 with 16MB ram and 400 MB HDD. lol. Just me and a few friends ever looked at it though and it was the simplest html text and pics page, nothing fancy.
 
not much hardware needed for a small webite. My web server at home is an old AMD 1.1GHz with 512 Megs of RAM and a 30G harddrive.

It very easily runs Win2k3/IIS6, PHP5, ASP.NET, MySQL

previous to that I had the same setup running just fine on an AMD 750MHz with 256Megs of RAM and a 10G harddrive. The only reason i even changed servers was because I was bored one weekend and had a bunch of spare parts lying around.
 
I've used a Z80 as a web server; a little embedded system might be more than enough. Or, you might need a bunch of machines and a redirector with a multi-tiered architecture.

You need to figure out what your application is, what your user load is, and then do some capacity planning. Otherwise, you won't get a valid answer.
 
ameoba said:
Ran Apache+MySQL+PHP on a 200MHz Pentium MMX w/ 64MB.
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That is the exact setup I started with, running IIS and Cerberus FTP server. Never had a problem.
 
My roof server I've had for years on end is a P2 233MHz, 8GB Quantum HDD, no cdrom or anything, 192 MB or ram.

So really, depending on your load you can get away with almost anything. If you're running Linux, then your floor limit would be around 200MHz for a low usage website.

But even a optimised slim install of say, Debian on a 400MHz machine can pump out some pretty heavy static websites.
 
i dont know if this question is to broad, but how do you set up a web server, like get the ftp and stuff. Maybe just pointing me towards a website wuld be great. :)
 
Thanks I appreciate all of the answers. I've been torn between hosting my own site or paying for hosting. Thanks for the tips.

Jeff
 
A place called host298 has a year of unlimited hosting for $20 on eBay; incorrige.us is run on this, and though we don't have much content yet it's been a simple setup process and good turnaround time on tech support. No problems to report.

A p3 will handle a lot of static traffic, and no small amount of php/perl traffic if it's written right.

 
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