Minimal hardware for web server
I have offered to set up a web server for computer science students
here at Western Kentucky University to practice their cgi and perhaps
java skills on. The machine would never have to support more than
about 5 simultaneous users, and usually would have only one user at a
time. The idea is to have a machine that students can bang on without
endangering vital files on one of our big servers.
I administer a sun sparc with a few hundred users, and I run linux on
my personal machine, but I've never supported multiple users on a
linux box. I'm not sure how much load I can handle with linux for a
given level of hardware. This is a chance to show what debian linux
can do, so I'm excited -- but the hardware I will have will be very
marginal at best. Will a 386 work? I might be able to wheedle
something a little better, but I'm not sure. I know java grinds down
fairly sustantial machines -- would there be any hope of getting java
to run at all on a 386? Maybe we can reduce the web resource
requirements by running boa instead of apache. Are there any other
tricks for marginal hardware I can use that immediately spring to
mind?
I'd hate to fall on my face because of weak hardware and have people
blame linux; it would be better to cancel the whole thing rather than
bomb out.
How low can the hardware go?
steve
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