My Webserver

I was working on reinstalling/upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 on my webserver and decided to take a quick video of it.

Dual AMD Athlon 1.6GHz 32bit
2GB DDR ECC RAM
70GB useable space in RAID1
Ubuntu Server 8.04
Power consumption: 160 watts

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Science & Technology

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• Ubuntu
• Server
• 8.04
• my
• webserver
• web
• server
• sudoseth

[microchoc]

where did you get it im saving for a server costing (£175)

[Echo7049]

I just found this one on ebay. You can usually find some relatively decent computers there for low(ish) price. The other option is to simply reuse an older machine. Unless you are running a very popular website you don't need much CPU power. Chances are you will run out of bandwidth before you run out of computer performance.

[neyway]

What's your internet connection speeds upload and download? and is it cable or dsl or something else thanks in advance.

[Echo7049]

I currently have a business cable account with Cox Communications. I have sustained speeds of 10mbs down and 2 mbs. I can also get temporary speeds as high as 30mbs down and 3mbs up thanks to the DOCSIS protocol. I have 2 static IP addresses which is how I am able to run my own web servers.

[selmuir]

This your business...?

[Echo7049]

Not really. This was just something I was working on in my spare time.

[toloratedmeat]

CPU Time is a big dilemma these days.

I really REALLY depends. For example if you're hosting game servers or using tons of perl scripts then you would need a lot of CPU power.

I suggest that you build one with an Intel Atom and 2Gb of ram and 2x160GB hard drives in raid 0.

I have three of these and they cost me about 360 dollars and they each use about 44watts on idle. If you want to run game servers, these would do a reasonably good job.

Try building with a pentium dual core instead

[attackofthepoprocks]

Nice. I made my old Pentium 4 into a web/email server. It only have 25MB of ram. But it runs 2000 professional well.

[mipsalawishus]

Tyan MB??

[bocskai98]

@webvid91

it's ok if you don't have important websites. If you charge clients for hosting, then the laptop is not good at all. Just think about HDD change time which is downtime and cost ot maintenance.

PCs are good.

[bocskai98]

@rezn66

If there's only one web page (as I understood), Xeons would be overkill.

I have 2 simple websites and I ran them on a Pentium 2 machine at around 400 MHz, 192 MB RAM, without problems. Changed to an Athlon 2500 (?) and 1 GB RAM only after taking in care a dynamic page with php scripts.

[JineshJK]

Good HDD for Reliability and Performance(Seagate or WD)??

Pls Help..

[mclmatty]

@johnchristian0131 I guess i could try to do something, but wont be just now though.

[johnchristian0131]

@mclmatty Thanks man can you make a video "how to make a web/file server"?

[mclmatty]

@johnchristian0131 A web server hosts web pages, a file server hosts files. Simple :)

[johnchristian0131]

Whats a webserver? i only know fileserver

[rezn66]

Why no Xeon?! 2 GB? come on!

[Hyp3rThrust]

@Metalozedex Webserver. DERP!