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Hey guys, I posted this in site management, but I'm thinking I'll get more feedback here.


What is most important (hardware) when specing out a webserver?
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My guess would be RAM, but I've not ever had a server undergoing a heavy load. Seems like it'd have more of a dependence on disk I/O than on processor time though...
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are we talking *nix or windows server?
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Hey guys, I posted this in site management, but I'm thinking I'll get more feedback here.


What is most important (hardware) when specing out a webserver?
RAM should be in gigabytes, secondary storage should be more than 100 GB, which OS are you planing to use?
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depends how many clients (and also if its an intranet or internet server)

My home web server is 256ram and 2x 233mhz CPU and it runs Debian fine
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It's going to be Windows Vista :-o


I'm no where near advanced in any *nix to run a webserver off it.


And the college is purchasing the equipment, and said eventually it would be migrated to vista, so we may as well get it on there. =/
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here is a system i customized... could you put your thoughts in?
I had the option of Fedora and SuSE.

I figure if we're going to use apache anyways, the OS isn't really a big deal.

Barebones
  • TYAN BLK - B5191G20V4H BBNS 1
Processor
  • Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 3050 2.13GHz 1066FSB 2MB Cache
Memory
  • 2GB PC5300 667MHz DDR2 x 2
Case Accessories
  • Rackmount Sliding Rails
Optical Drive
  • Slim 8x DVD-ROM
Controller Card
  • None
Hard Drive(s)
  • 73.4GB SAS 15000 RPM - Seagate Cheetah 15K.4
Operating System
  • Novell SuSE Linux 10.2
Software
  • None
Warranty and Support
  • Thinkmate Server 3 Year Warranty
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also. will vbulletin run on linux?
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i suppose so

i would use fedora instead though. SuSEs updater is kinda broken and its a memory hog

Even better, use CentOS (free version of Red Hat Enterprise)
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i suppose so

i would use fedora instead though. SuSEs updater is kinda broken and its a memory hog

Even better, use CentOS (free version of Red Hat Enterprise)

ah, interesting...
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