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[Coreace]

Both will do well for your 2GB/M. The Celeron system of yours a bit more powerful. Think ahead, what do you think will happen to your bandwidth usage? Amount of users and space used? You could easily go for a Celeron 64MB now and then when you get more clients onboard upgrade your hardware.

[eilko]

Hi,

I run now several small sites, with some usage of cgi and php. Bandwith usage is about 2Gb/m. I would like to go to a dedicated server cos more often I need root access for programs I want to use.

With all your experiences with servers, what do you think the server capabilities should be?

Would for instance Celeron 400, 64Mb with RedHat Linux 6.x be enough? And about a Raq3 with 64Mb?

I hope you can help me with this...

Regards,

Eilko

[MikeA]

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[eilko]

I know a PIII with 256Mb is better but I think that it too much for my needs.

Depending on what I need as minimal for a server I can see if that it in reach of my budget.

Eilko

[Jag]

The celeron you propose will more than handle some site pushing only 2gig. It shouldnt even break a sweat

[Chicken]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't even a 486 with 16MB of ram do the trick in this case?

[Jag]

Ya, you could run those kind of site (2gig total) off of a calculator practically

[Racin' Rob]

I my still have my old Atari 130XE floating around somewhere. :-)

[Chicken]

Atarihost.com ?

"We run ultra sleek Atari servers..."

[eilko]

ok, a 64Mb Celereon will do for 2Gb/month. Do you also know how much Gb such machine will be good for? 10Gb? 20Gb?


Eilko


ps. too bad I sold my Atari

[Racin' Rob]

I don't think it is a matter of a certain bandwidth limit, rather than have much system resources are used to deliver the bandwidth. Such a server should be capable of delivering over 100 GB each month, but how many scripts are run and how many .shtml documents do you use and how many SSI calls do you use? These will zap your systm resources much quicker than straight static html documents. If you cound this server to be slow at times, the first thing would be to increase the ram. That is not an expensive proposition, but you wouldn't have to do it until it was needed if at all.

[Chicken]

Along the lines of Racin' Bob and to sum it up... usually the best reason for going dedicated, is that your site is too big and uses too much resources to be on a shared server. A straight HTML site pulling 30 Gigs would probably work fine, but a site that eats CPU for breakfast would be much more demanding at *any* bandwidth level.

[eilko]

Main reason for me to go dedicated is the lack of "freedom" on a virtual server. Not always the right software installed, or the right versions, not able to add own software.. so root access is more the main reason.

I don't use SSI or heavy cgi scripting. Just some php3 stuff, but nothing extreme.

Thank you all for you comments it helped me a lot!