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Originally Posted by Marvin
Fedora Core 5 (its graphical and easy), you just have to select the relevent server software during the instaltion. Thats apache, php etc. Then read how to configure them, edit the config files to match your configuration and what you want done.
No need to waste 120GB on a web server. The 3-5gig one should be ok. Dont install stuff you wont need. Just have gnome installed and not mutch else apart from the web server software.
You could still use windows and IIS(comes with 2000/XP Pro/server 2003), or windows and apache. Apache and windows work great. If you have little experience using linux this might be better in a way as you will only have to learn how to config the web server software and not a whole OS.
Im sure a 900MHz box running just apache would not fall over unless its slashdoted(but is there a server in the world that can take that load).
If it were me i would put 2000 or XP Pro on. Install Apache, PHP, MySQL etc and just have them run. Config windows so its not running any background services you dont need and it should be ok. There are lots of tutorials out there for getting apache to work on windows and how to get PHP and MySQL working with it. Its not to hard, even an idiot like me can get it to work.
Edit: Windows is just as stable as Linux if you have a firewall, antivirus and all patches installed.
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The other problem is that with the whole genuine advantage thing going on, all of my liscences of windows have been used many times on slightly reconfigured hardware, so most of them are dead (I get a lot of them from old work pc's and broken laptops). ANd I know how to configure PHP, Apache, and mysql on windows, as I'm developing my site on the computer before I upload everything to the web.