Min Hardware spec for apache & proftpd

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Min Hardware spec for apache & proftpd
started by: Tomo

Posted by Tomo on May 05 2004,15:52

I have two units that are the same specs as a P1 233Mhz they are fanless in everyway ....... PSU CPU everything.

I want to turn one of them into a HTTP server with FTP access do will they be upto the task ?

thanks

-Tom

Posted by cbagger01 on May 05 2004,16:15

As long as you don't have thousands of users accessing the computer, it should be fine.

It has more than enough CPU power for a home/personal/small business web/file server.

Posted by Grim on May 05 2004,17:38

It also depends how image intensive your make your site layout.

For instance, Larry Niven's book The Ringworld Engineers is just under 600k worth of text, that's roughly ~15 second page load time over dial-up. Add a 1Meg banner and you're over a minute download for dial-up users (if you're hosting from a dial-up account, the upload time is waaay worse).

Also consider that for every connection you get, multiply that number by the size of the combined size of your webpage+graphics and subtract it from your available bandwidth.

Also consider that if you run a dynamically generated website (PHP or mod_perl) that you're gonna eat up available memory more quickly than static pages. Anything that circumvents your server cache is death to your server if you're running on minimal resources.

All that said, the setup you propose should work for a fairly large audience provided that you don't go over too heavy with the multimedia.

Posted by Tomo on May 06 2004,14:59

The site isnt anything too heavy, mainly for personal pictures etc.(they will be jpegs all <1mb more and 80% of people that will be looking at it will be on adsl/cable/t1's etc

and maybe a forum thats about it.

I've got a via epia 800 that im using for my main file server/samba server .......... when i can figure samba out that is........ alls i want is a single share so that all users can view/delete etc

i want to host holiday divx movies and pics etc on there so we can view them from either pc on the home network including the xbox with Xbox Media Center that can view samba shares.

thanks all ;)