General Server Requirements

[psinewe]

OK, as I look into dedicated server options. How about some input on basic server requirements.

I.E.

Type of drive

RedHat Linux or FreeBSD

Type of control panel

Will 256 meg of ram cut it?

I realize all of this depends on the number of vb's and users, but in general, what would one stay away from, or push toward???

[ccd1]

Mine:

AMD K-6 450 Mhz
180 MB RAM
2 IDE 5400 RPM drives on RAID 0

Holds around 20 users at a time

[menace86]

if your going to have a lot of users, and probably a lot of posts, i'd go for more then 80 gig. If your going to try to keep it going for awhile that is. I use freebsd, I find freebsd runs very well and I like it more then redhat. Freebsd runs very easily too. u can juss get everything in freebsd updated in a matter of minutes by a simple command, there all you do is go inside the ports folder and to the category on what u want to installl like php4, mysql server and stuff, juss type make install, it d/ls, installs everything for you, so really easy. Then get phpMyAdmin is what I do to handle my mysql databases.

[menace86]

mine is :
athlon xp 1800 +
1 gb of ddr ram
100 gb ibm deskstar
120 gb ibm deskstar ( soon to be installed )
T1 connection.
Running freebsd.

[ccd1]

Hmm, no backup drives?

Risky.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by psinewe
OK, as I look into dedicated server options. How about some input on basic server requirements.

I.E.

Type of drive

RedHat Linux or FreeBSD

Type of control panel

Will 256 meg of ram cut it?

I realize all of this depends on the number of vb's and users, but in general, what would one stay away from, or push toward??? stay away from freeBSD, windows environments and unproven new released software (new releases which haven't had enough time since release to user feedback/bugs etc)

Red Hat 7.3
latest 2.4.x stable kernel
Apache 1.3.27
PHP 4.1.2 or 4.2.3
MySQL 3.23.53a
single p3 1.13ghz or 1.26ghz tualatin with 512k L2 cache
512MB Registered ECC PC2100 DDRAM
18GB 10,000rpm scsi hdd
40 or 80GB Western Digital 400JB or 800JB 8mb cache EIDE hdd as backup drive

that would be slightly above what you'd need to start off with but would last you a while probably good for 200 - 300 vB reported users online or around 150 - 250 concurrent max mysql connections provided mysql and apache/php configuration is fine tuned

[menace86]

i love freebsd =0

[Coreace]

Difficult to do any estimate without any information from you about your current size of the website, forum, users, traffic etc.