Networking :: DSL as a web-server?
Hi!
I'm currently putting together a very inexpensive web-server, and I'm looking to run it as a web-server and crank as much performance out of it as I can. So I'm looking at Linux distributions that I might install onto it.
So I've come across DSL!
Here's a brief outline of my intended machine:
AMD Sempron 2800+ (1.6ghz 64-bit)
Asustek ASUS Vintage AE-1 case (contains motherboard for this chip, integrated graphics and power-supply, nothing fancy but affordable)
2 x 256mb RAM chips (DDR3200 400mhz)
2 x 20gb Seagate U Series X (5400rpm ATA-100 drives)
It should have everything I'm going to need bar any extra cabling. It should also do just fine but has some room for upgrading the hard-drive and such.
Anyway, what I'm hoping to do is set that up, plug it into my network and then install Linux onto it using a CD-Drive in another machine (I don't really need a CD drive in the machine itself). Alternatively I do have a USB-key so I could probably use that I suppose.
So I've got a few queries, please bear in mind that while I'm fairly well versed in basic command-line and am an avid Mac OS X fan, I'm quite new to Linux. These are my general requirements:
- Allow me to format the two HDs first of all, and put them in RAID 1 configuration (mirrored, just in case I got that number wrong 
)
- Allow me to install onto the HD after booting from the CD/USB-drive
- Install Apache 2
- Install PHP 5
- Install MySQL (or maybe SQLite since it's included with PHP5, I'll do tests on that before I make a decision)
- Provide SSH access for administration
Is DSL a good solution, or would I better seeing what else is on offer?
DSL should run very fast on that machine. For a LAMPP configuration you may want to take a look at XAMPP Xampp website
I use it for personal use on a much smaller machine then yours and it runs fine. I don't allow access to it from the outside world so I'm not too concerned about security, that may be an issue for you. Do a search of the forum for XAMPP if you need additional help installing it.
Sorry to bump this again, still waiting for the hard-drives to arrive.
But that got me thinking, how do I go about enabling a software mirror of the two drives? I presume there are things I can install for Linux that allow me to do this? Since I'm going low budget then a RAID-1 or RAID-5 capable card isn't an option at this time.
The obvious recommendation would be to use a hardware RAID but you indicated that it is out of your price range (I can relate). I have set up a RAID 1 on a Tao Linux distro (based on Red Hat) and on SUSE 10.0. It was tricky for me as at the time I was pretty inexperienced.
I've never tried setting up a RAID using DSL but I would recommend doing a Google search for RAID HOWTO and see what is available.
Hey there, long time no post to this, heh!
Finally got wireless set-up on the box, but I still can't get mirroring to work. I tried following your idea and found this article, however the tools it links to won't build on DSL, even with the gcc compiler (though it is version 1, could it be a newer version of C or something?)
Though not mission critical, it's something I'd still like to get set-up. On that note, setting up a mirrored RAID, will it delete the contents of my boot disk, or will it automatically just copy them to create the mirrored drive, anyone know? Though with the network running I can hopefully move the files more easily.
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