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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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| 143414 | 2003-05-12 10:31:00 | Well I won't need tomcat, as I don't think I'd run Java. I'll use Apache for the webserver, will attempt to install it on FreeBSD, if no go there, will try RH. May look into MySQL as I may need a database. Would like to know their connection for PressF1 how fast it is, what traffic they get? |
Kame (312) | ||
| 143415 | 2003-05-12 10:45:00 | ADSL 128kbps? How suitable is that, for yourself, how many people do you reckon you'd get at your chat. If things get popular would you be looking at upgrading. As for what I'm doing, I can't use Jetstream Starter to run a server due to their terms. I know people do this but I can't do it in my situation. I'm wondering if 256kbps is good but I'd need to find more people who run dedicated servers and what hits they get a month. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 143416 | 2003-05-12 11:27:00 | A 256Kbps connection will be fine I think you'll find. Until it's under rather heavy stress that is. I know of one or two sites running on 128K and they're fine most of the time. When Clueless had his server up it seemed fine as well. Also depends on what the site will be used for really. If there is gonna be heaps of downloading going on you'd be wanting to bump the connection up a lot. Depending on how what requirements you need it may be easier/cheaper to get hosting somewhere as opposed to building your own webserver. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 143417 | 2003-05-12 12:00:00 | >Originally posted by cyberchuck >I sent an email off to IDG when enquiring as to the specs of the >machine that hosts PressF1 so we could base the server for >studentnet on it. Here's a bit of the reply I got:... >>Originally posted by agent >>And here's what I heard from that: >>"blahblahblah... low, low specs...not 2GHz, I DEMAND 2GHz those are actually pretty impressive specs for a web server, if the only thing being hosted off "Candy" is PF1. my personal host has specs similar to these, but is hosting about 150 sites, with at least 5 high traffic forums, and by no means is it ever slow, grtz sal. tga |
sal (67) | ||
| 143418 | 2003-05-12 19:43:00 | Another quote from the email: Bandwidth? We have 10Mb/s local bandwidth, that services all our sites and users . We never get close to utilising that amount . Pressf1 has over 300,000 page impressions per month . Multiply that by page size(minus banner ads) and you have data moved . Divide by a month and you have average bandwidth . Hope this helps CyberChuck |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 143419 | 2003-05-12 20:47:00 | In all reality - you may be able to get away with 256Kbps, or 2x 128kbps lines... My chat software runs fine off a 2.4K modem, so quite honestly even 56K is overkill.. Kinda good that I can have upto 65000 people in the chat at any given time!!! Anyways , to be quite honest with you, if you have 256kbps, lets say you have 5x people all visiting your site at once! Now, on dial-up, there's no way they'll hit 56K exactly, so lets say everybody is surfing on 51K. 51Kx 5 connections = 255Kbps! So in theory, none of them will notice any difference! And yes, server specs need not go into the multi-Ghz range, you're not encrypting data for the client PC so why build a PC designed with the processing power to do that? |
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