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| Thread ID: 33263 | 2003-05-12 03:54:00 | What would I need for a webserver? | Kame (312) | Press F1 |
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| 143394 | 2003-05-12 03:54:00 | I'm thinking of building a webserver, I don't really understand Traffic as I haven't had a lot to do with Statistics from websites. What Operating System is good for hosting Websites? I'm familiar with Red Hat and could use that but what would you recommend, or what is by far the most popular OS used for Webservers? What type of connection is suitable for webservers? I'm thinking from 256kbit-8Mbit (ADSL only). Traffic wise is something I'm not understanding. The server will most likely be NZ targetted and not for international (maybe I'll change this) but as for now it's just starting out. Is National Traffic free? the plans really go by download traffic (I think) and not upload, would a webserver be mostly upload? Would this mean that the plan I choose does not have to have huge traffic if it's primarily used for webserver? Would really appreciate it if PC World would let me in on what they are using, such as system specs, type of internet connection, traffic... all things that'd help me figure out what type of costs I can expect. Any problems with it handling all of the PressF1 members? |
Kame (312) | ||
| 143395 | 2003-05-12 04:05:00 | > What Operating System is good for hosting Websites? > I'm familiar with Red Hat and could use that but > what would you recommend, or what is by far the most > popular OS used for Webservers? That will be Linux & IIS & a Microsoft operating system eg Win 2003 server etc... & a few others OS |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 143396 | 2003-05-12 04:10:00 | What is this Web Server going to be used for? E.g. just for a plain HTML website or dynamic website e.g. PHP, ASP MySQL etc.... | stu140103 (137) | ||
| 143397 | 2003-05-12 04:13:00 | Forf the IDG hardware etc, just go to the PC World page, (click on the header here) and look down the left hand side for "IDG Net Powered by . . . . Click on that . As for waht you need, that's a matter of choice . Apache is the most popular web server . . . that's not because it's free; it's because it is good . You might as well run that with Linux or BSD, because they will let the computer hardware run the server, not the OS . Linux is easier to use, but freeBSd has the name for security . However, what gets fixed in BSD gets fixed in Linux . And once fixed, these thing stay fixed --- there's no nonsense of "40 million lines of new code" in a new version of the software . You'll want a reasonably fast link . I don't know what that will cost you . :D There are catches whereby if your throughput crosses a limit it costs you more . Much more . I think that will apply whether or not it's international . How do you to propose to keep international users out? There is no automatic partition . ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 143398 | 2003-05-12 04:14:00 | > Would really appreciate it if PC World would let me > in on what they are using, such as system specs, type > of internet connection, traffic... all things that'd > help me figure out what type of costs I can expect. > Any problems with it handling all of the PressF1 > members? Have a look here (http:) for some system specs on the IDGNet websites, including PC World exclude Press F1 (I think) :( |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 143399 | 2003-05-12 04:18:00 | Well I'd probably build the site in PHP or whatever I find suitable, I'll probably test it on two servers, linux based and windows based, at a rough guess I'm expecting just a little under what PressF1 would get as in hits per month. Don't worry it's not going to be a help forum. I could imagine possibly 20 or so hits per day when it starts out but I'm expecting more in the future. I don't understand traffic as I keep saying but yea, would need to know just a rough estimate of what I'd expect if it was 20 hits per day. Mean I won't know this till it's up and running so now I can only estimate all this. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 143400 | 2003-05-12 04:35:00 | also if you do a search for "web server"" FTP server" you will find a few post about this :) | stu140103 (137) | ||
| 143401 | 2003-05-12 04:48:00 | I've read through a lot of information on webservers but they don't give you the behind the scenes look at things, like costs of traffic and things like that (NZ is really expensive). It's simple enough to setup a webserver, I've done it in Linux, but I am now doing this as a permanent thing, by getting a fast connection with a static IP and building a system primarily used for webserving only, no FTP, Mail. FreeBSD, I believe I've run this before and it was all text-based? I remember posting a problem to PressF1 1 or 2 years ago, I was having with getting it up and running, it may have been a corrupt download of the ISO or memory error, but will attempt to get it working again. Well PressF1's system specs aren't really shown, do you really need the latest and greatest for a webserver? Xeon and Multiprocessor systems? How much processing power is used for PressF1 if that's possible? Does it get over 70%... I may convert my dual processor computer into the server if needs be, or build a system to meet the requirements. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 143402 | 2003-05-12 05:36:00 | Another thing I missed in my question, RAM, How much should I be looking at? Over 1Gig? | Kame (312) | ||
| 143403 | 2003-05-12 06:58:00 | To keep international people out, well I don't want to keep them out, but basically my website is going to be an advantage for NZ'ers and only International if they need to locate something. I just found out MB usuage is Upload and Download, I'm sure I read somewhere that some plans only charged on d/load. So far I think Traffic is 3GB but later on I can expect double that and even more if it takes off. |
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