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Old 01-01-03, 10:23 PM Thread Starter   #1
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How to build a server?


Just wanna know a basic step by step about building a server. How would i go about setting one up?

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Old 01-01-03, 10:34 PM   #2
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ummm what type of server?
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Old 01-01-03, 10:36 PM   #3
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Yup…need more info.

Servers are more defined in what they do rather than what they are made of.
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Old 01-01-03, 10:56 PM   #4
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well regardless of type, lots and lots and lots and oodles of RAM....

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Old 01-01-03, 11:09 PM Thread Starter   #5
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Just a regular server. Thats enough to host a few web sites.

Nothing major, just want to know how to set one up
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Old 01-01-03, 11:15 PM   #6
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If it's just for a few websites, a regular desktop made of stable components would work fine. Dual CPUs and SCSI RAID arrays are really only for computationally intense tasks. However, you might want to give ECC and/or registered RAM a look. It's not as fast as regular RAM but it's better for stability.

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Old 01-01-03, 11:22 PM   #7
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Are you wanting to know how to setup a web server or what box to build to set one up on?

As for the equipment, bandwidth is usually the bottleneck. The best hardware in the world will not help if people are trying to squeeze though a thin pipe.

As for the box itself, again, it depends on what you want it to do. What will be on those sites? Will you offer downloads or data lookup?

Most business web servers I have seen consisted of dual CPUs, tons of memory, and a RAID configuration that includes mirroring.
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Old 01-01-03, 11:59 PM   #8
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For your average webserver, you don't need very fancy hardware. Depending on the amount of traffic your going to get, bandwidth becomes the limiting factor. For example, I've run a webserver off a P166 running slackware linux, and the page loaded without any slow downs. Of course, if that site had gotten more traffic, performance would be lost.

Before you start building anything, you should figure out what exactly this server would be for and how much load it will get.
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Old 01-02-03, 12:00 AM   #9
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If iits a server to host a few pages, the computer you have will work just fine.
Althought with a few changes:
- 512 Ram at least
- Only 2 HD - same size and doing mirror
- add a Backup tape
- no sound card is needed
- regular cheap video card (since its not for playing games)

Then you will only have to install Win2k Server (for example)
with IIS.
And voilá, you will have a nice little server for hoosting a few pages.

If you need something more powerfull then a Dual CPU setting with scsi will be better. But thats only if you have more intensive server needs - Like running SQL Server...
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Old 01-02-03, 10:59 PM Thread Starter   #10
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Do i need to have Win2k Server? Or will Win2k Pro do?
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Old 01-02-03, 11:30 PM   #11
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2k pro will be fine just install iis or apache ....installing iis is easy if you dont know how you just go to the add remove programs off the control panel then go to add/remove windows components then check iis and throw in your windows cd and let it install after that its up to you to set up iis its not hard at all
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