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| Thread ID: 101387 | 2009-07-13 11:53:00 | What OS for server? | bluezone (12434) | Press F1 |
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| 791380 | 2009-07-13 11:53:00 | Hi all. Just brought 2x Dell Poweredge 2550. Both are the same specs see below. Dell PowerEdge 2550 2U Rack Server CPU: 2x Pentium III 1266MHz, 512KB Cache RAM: 1GB ECC SDRAM (Max 4gb) HDD: 5x Fujitsu 18.2GB Ultra 160 SCSI/SCA2/LVD (10,000RPM) RAID: PERC 3/Di RAID Controller with battery backup PSU: 2x 330W NIC: 1x 10/100/1000, 1x 10/100 I/O: CD-ROM, 3.5" Floppy, PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse, VGA, Parallel, 2x USB 1.1, 2x Serial, 3x PCI expansion slots (riser card) i713.photobucket.com What would the best OS be for them. Wanting to use it to sort files on and have it so mates can download files off it and also me from work ie: File sharing. Also have a user and password that has to be types in. Also mite host a website off 1. |
bluezone (12434) | ||
| 791381 | 2009-07-13 11:57:00 | Depends a bit on what your needs actually are, but unless you're hosting an asp.net site you'd most likely be best off with some form of Linux - I'd recommend Debian stable. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 791382 | 2009-07-13 12:02:00 | I have Windows XP pro SP3 on disc. all my files are windows based. I havent really used linux before apart from trying out Freespire 1 time on a old pc. |
bluezone (12434) | ||
| 791383 | 2009-07-13 12:09:00 | +1 for a linux distro... Maybe throw apache on and set up Samba file sharing... |
Blam (54) | ||
| 791384 | 2009-07-13 12:11:00 | You would need a server based OS wouldnt you? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 791385 | 2009-07-13 12:34:00 | Yeh I can get Windows server 2003 cheap for work as we have upgraded. If its worth getting and will do what i want. I have CuteFTP pro also that I use to upload files to a free website host and used it to trasfer files to my modded xbox. We have Filezilla at work and i seen there is a filezilla server version anyone used it? http://filezilla-project.org/ www.youtube.com |
bluezone (12434) | ||
| 791386 | 2009-07-13 12:39:00 | Filezilla is very good, would highly recommend it. and Speedy-Linux can be anything, if you want it to be a server then it'll be a server OS;) |
Blam (54) | ||
| 791387 | 2009-07-13 12:45:00 | Yup I meant for windows tho not Linux | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 791388 | 2009-07-13 12:48:00 | XP Pro will work fine for a file server, but not much else. There is a 10 concurrent connection limit. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 791389 | 2009-07-13 19:41:00 | I am using XP home as my backup server as it was already on the comp I wanted to use and was too lazy to change it works fine for saving backups to | gary67 (56) | ||
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