On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:54:33 +1200 yuri wrote: > It's time to teach myself a bit of PHP and MySQL. > For $20 I can get a P166 with 64MB RAM and a few gigs of HD from Molten Media. > My first project will be a little addressbook webapp (that's not too > ambitious is it?)
no that sounds acheivable, there should be plenty of howtos around. > > What would be the minimum hardware requirement? Would the $20 box suffice? dicey i would have thought. I have a p233 here at the office with 64M RAM which used to be my postfix|cyrus|apache|samba|anything else server but it proved too slow to serve mailbxes with 10k massage folders, and now sits around looking busy and just serving files via samba. It does just that just fine. IMHO the machine you are looking at will just do what you want, but it will be slow about it and you'll be wishing you spent $50. Something nearer the 3-400M mark with 128M of RAM will "serve" you much better. > Also, what distro would be installable on that, with Apache, MySQL and PHP. > (No X11 required - it won't even have a screen attached). I would look at debian (or minimal ubuntu). (Actually i would compile a minimal gentoo system on my desktop, than transfer it over and use gentoo, but I am just perverse like that) > > Yuri > -- > ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** > Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before > sending reply to this post. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
