What would be system requirements for a small webserver?

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I am new to the web designer scene. I am in the process of developing a site using Dreamweaver MX 2004. I have two options for machines to host as a webserver.

Option 1:
1) CPU: AMD Athlon 2000+
2) Memory: Crucial 512MB (2x256MB) PC2100
3) HDD: Western Digital 80GB SE
4) NIC: Nvidia 10/100 (onboard)
5) Bandwidth: 1.5Mbps down / 384Mbps up
6) OS: Windows XP Pro - using the built in IIS


Option 2:
1) CPU: Celeron 500MHz
2) Memory: 160MB (1x128MB / 1x32MB) PC66
3) HDD: 4GB
4) NIC: 3Com 10/100
5) Bandwidth: 1.5Mbps down / 384Mbps up
6) OS: ClarkConnect Home Edition (Customized RedHat Linux 9)


My question is....Can Option 2 host a small website just starting out? I mean by small is probably no more than 50-100 hits a day and very little pics, no multimedia stuff, mostly text with CSS. Thanks in advance.

Bob2001
 
A low traffic website (for an example with 50 to 100 hits like you mentioned it) doesn't need anything fancy. Assuming you don't do anything else on the PC and your website isn't extremely database intensive, pretty much every PC that got released in the past couple of years will suffice. With 100 hits a day, you'll get on average one hit every 14,4 minutes.
If your site is entirely HTML, your option B won't even get out of idle when all those 100 hits come in at the same time ;) . Your upstream will be the limiting factor here.
 
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