1. What is good software used to host a photos that you can browse
easily.
I use gallery 1.x from http://gallery.menalto.com/. It is OSS, the code
is on sourceforge, the website is offsite.
3. Is a 400 P2 128 megs of ram good enough for a lightly traveled web
site. Will not run a GUI to conserve resources. Is this enough horse
power
to MySQL/PHP. I might though togather a VERY basic dynamic web site
just to
tinker and learn PHP(if I can find time).
It's perfect and near what I used to run (450 P2, 512 Mb, 6 Gb). Now my
development box is a (500 P3, 512 Mb, 40 Gb disk) with PHP 4.x, Apache
2.x, MySQL 4.x installed. Occasionally I'll start X, and most
applications work well enough. Open Office is the only thing I've seen
that takes a measurable amount of time to start. But that's not your
intent. I don't have any performance numbers about this configuration.
4. Any issues with doing such a thing with Road Runner.
Check your service agreement if you're concerned about legality.
5. What dynamic DNS service to you all use or is buying a static IP
address
cheaper?
I was using the free service from dyndns.com. I was very happy with it
so I bought their $25/year custom DNS solution so now my primary
website & email is accessible through my hosting provider but if I need
to get into my dev server I've got a subdomain just for it. There's a
small client on the dev box that runs via cron to update it's DNS
record when/if its IP changes.
6. What distro of linux would you use for a project of this nature?
The 450 P2 ran Fedora Core 2. The 500 P3 is running FC 3 with legacy
updates. If I was going to start the project fresh with older hardware
I might pick Debian's Sarge release.
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