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Slow/Old Hardware for a Webserver?

GotNoRice

GotNoRice

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As a side project I'm trying to build my friend a small webserver. Just something he can have running on his home net connection so he can host his own images and other random files.

We're looking at using Server 2008 and IIS, but pretty much nothing else will be running on that box.

What is the slowest hardware we could get away with? He has a really tiny computer that would work great size wise but I believe it's just a 466mhz Celeron, likely Pentium2/3 era. 2nd Choice would be a 933Mhz Pentium 3 (2nd choice because it's in some huge old gateway case).
 
You could use either system, but are you set on server 08?
 
450 said:
You could use either system, but are you set on server 08?
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Every version of Windows Server after Server 2008, including 2008 r2, seem to require x64 processors whereas the potential machines we are considering are all x86. I could potentially use something non-windows but of course I like to stick with what I'm familiar with :)

I notice that the "official" minimum listed for server 2008 is 1Ghz. Has anyone run a server on hardware below the minimum before? Would there actually be a delay in it's ability to serve web content via IIS (mostly images)?
 
One thing I'd check is power consumption of both those computers. Older desktops tended to idle quite high because of all the additional stuff (e.g. video cards) in the box. I did some calculations not too long ago and concluded for many old computers it would be cheaper over the course of two years to buy a basic NAS (e.g. Synology/Qnap) to do this stuff. Not to mention, the Admin work would be much easier on a NAS.
 
I think a lightweight 'nix distro with apache would be a better bet.
 
obug said:
One thing I'd check is power consumption of both those computers. Older desktops tended to idle quite high because of all the additional stuff (e.g. video cards) in the box. I did some calculations not too long ago and concluded for many old computers it would be cheaper over the course of two years to buy a basic NAS (e.g. Synology/Qnap) to do this stuff.
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I usually draw the same conclusions if we're talking about old P4 boxes. But the Pentium 3 (and P3 based celerons) was actually pretty damn efficient, which is why it ultimately evolved into the Pentium-M.
 
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