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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:20:14 -0800 To: redhat-list@redhat.com From: "David S Edwards" <David@california.net> Subject: Re: Building a Red Hat Server At 10:24 PM 3/24/99 -0900, you wrote: >> >> Got me a T1... >> >> Now I need to have the local hardware guru put together what will >> be a dedicated server. And, rather than buy something >> full of garbage that we won't need, we want to build a Red Hat >> friendly box. I have dozens of systems, mainly single Pentium Pro 200s with 256 Megs Ram, Buslogic BT958 scsi cards, single Quantum Altas II or Seagate Cheetah ultra wide 4.5 or 9 gig drives, 3Com or Intel NICs, and a cheap vga video card. The drive ends up being the most expensive part, but for me its worth it, because that's where the bottleneck in the system is. But with only a T1, you probably don't need a whole lot. You can definitely get away with less than what I use, since one of my boxes with the above configuration is able to sustain around 4.5 Mbps of traffic when serving mostly static pages. That's about 3 T1 combined. My experience has been that unless you are running lots of cgi stuff, RAM is the most important thing in a web server, then hard drive. ======= Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:55:32 -0800 To: redhat-list@redhat.com From: "David S Edwards" <David@california.net> Subject: Re: Building a Red Hat Server At 07:24 AM 3/25/99 -0700, you wrote: > >I've kept notes of what you, Ramon and Jason suggested... one more >question if I may, I am running lots of cgi (Perl) stuff. Unfortunately I >am not a hardware guru, and the above statement got me to wondering: >form a hardware viewpoint, what do I need to do to make sure the Perl >stuff runs fast and true? Lots of cgi does require more cpu power than just serving up static pages. One of my boxes is a Pentium II 350, it does seem to run cgi's faster than the Pentium Pro 200, but there are other things you can do to speed up cgi's. For one thing, if your cgi are in perl, you can use mod_perl with apache. That embeds a perl interpreter into apache, thus saving the extra overhead of starting up another process every time a cgi is run. === Subject: Re: Creating A Server "Newbie Question" From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:43:37 +0100 (CET) On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Derek Rader wrote: > I've been using RH6.1 for a couple of months and I want to creat a server > with Apache. My question is on performance. With a 400mhz Pentium and 128 > MB of RAM and a cable modem will I be able to handle traffic? Unless you're making heavy use of server-parsed html, CGI, and/or PHP, definitely. For serving mostly static pages, a 486 will still do the job. ===