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Indigno · Jul 18th, 2006, 3:39 PM

I'm completely re-doing my website, and my former web host does not support PHP or MYSQL (Oh, well, it was ad-less and free, what can you expect?). I have two cable modems, so I get two separate IP addresses, which means that it would be incredibly easy for me to set up a web server at home.
The box I have in mind has:
-900mhz
-I'll stuff about 700 mb of ram in there
-and a 3-5 gig hard drive (I might put in a 120 gig drive, but it's not very dependable so I'm kind of hesitant about that)

I was going to take the easy way out with windows, but I realised that this machine is old and might have problems if I ever experience any sort of moderate website activity while running windows. So I'll go ahead and use linux. I have experience with linux, but I have never tried setting up a serious server that's going to be running PHP and MYSQL at the same time.

What I need is a distro of linux (or BSD, etc...) that is easy to set up (preferrably with web services pre-built into it) and dependable enough to leave alone for weeks at a time, and small enough to fit onto a 3 gig hard drive. And if it's small, it needs to have a GUI because I'm not good enough with linux to run it solely off of command line, sorry.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Jul 18th, 2006, 3:39 PM	#1
Indigno Professional Programmer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Anywhere non-productive Posts: 267 Rep Power: 0	Linux Web Server I'm completely re-doing my website, and my former web host does not support PHP or MYSQL (Oh, well, it was ad-less and free, what can you expect?). I have two cable modems, so I get two separate IP addresses, which means that it would be incredibly easy for me to set up a web server at home. The box I have in mind has: -900mhz -I'll stuff about 700 mb of ram in there -and a 3-5 gig hard drive (I might put in a 120 gig drive, but it's not very dependable so I'm kind of hesitant about that) I was going to take the easy way out with windows, but I realised that this machine is old and might have problems if I ever experience any sort of moderate website activity while running windows. So I'll go ahead and use linux. I have experience with linux, but I have never tried setting up a serious server that's going to be running PHP and MYSQL at the same time. What I need is a distro of linux (or BSD, etc...) that is easy to set up (preferrably with web services pre-built into it) and dependable enough to leave alone for weeks at a time, and small enough to fit onto a 3 gig hard drive. And if it's small, it needs to have a GUI because I'm not good enough with linux to run it solely off of command line, sorry. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.