Web Servers

[Maxi]

Doing some research for my employer on web servers.

At the moment I have, a PIII 800 with 1gig of ram and running mirrored SCSI hard drives, sitting next to me. Its was an old company server until they moved onto two new dell servers. The two dells run all the apps for company, plus the internal company intranet.

What I want to know is if Server 2003 would run on the PIII ? Or would I be best to stick to 2000 Server or plain old 2000 pro ?

Are there any really advantages to going to Server 2003 ? eg security/speed/reliability ?

Can 2000 Server perform just as well ?

When is 2000 Server support being cut ?

Before you suggest or ask....No..A Linux system is NOT an option at this stage.

[mr. Twitch]

for webserver, you definatly want to be running linux.

IIS just doesnt cut it. (unless of course the sites you are wanting to host are ASP/ASP.net

I was running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition on a P3600mhz with 280mb RAM and a 10GB IDE HDD and it worked fine

[Dezza Bot]

Depends on your intended load. You could host a webserver on a 486 with 4mb ram running linux if that kind of hardware suits your loads

[RavenKittie]

Those specs should be fine for a webserver as long as it's not going to be hosting some big fuck off huge database to thousands of people :/

If it's just for a company intranet it would be fine. Win2K3 Server would also be fine, but I'd be more inclined to fine tune it and disable all of the services you would not be using.

And fuck Linux, IIS does cut it

Some workplaces don't wish to make the move to Linux which is fair enough, if it's only for a company intranet Windows + IIS will be fine.

I think I rember reading support stops for Win2K

On June 30, 2005, the Windows 2000 product family (including Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter Server, and Windows 2000 Professional) transitions from the Mainstream Support to Extended Support phase. This transition marks the progression of Windows 2000 through its product life cycle, originally announced in 2002. The Windows 2000 family entered the marketplace in February 2000 and remains a robust, mature product as it enters its 5-year Extended Support life-cycle phase.[/b]

Taken from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/serve...dedsupport.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/evaluation/news/bulletins/extendedsupport.mspx)


I have a PC here that won't load Win2K3 Server (Enterprise / standard any) and to fix it the BIOS flash disables booting from CD ROM. So I was stuck, Win2K did me fine for awhile. I then upped the server to a P4 3.2 and installed Win2K3 Enterprise and she's fine.

yawn bedtime

[PHOENIX_12]

we've got a system of the same spec at work running a webserver so it shouldn't be a problem if your running any databaseing you'll want a faster cpu and casheing more ram

[Maxi]

Wont be anything fancy just yet.

Only database that would be running would be for a product listing. Would not be an online store, just a listing of products. All orders are phoned or faxed through.

Other than that it will either be an out of the box php setup, or plain old html with some nice gfx.

Having meeting with GM this week about it, so I should find out some more about what exactly what road is taken.

[linux_inside v2]

www.cactuar.net

Run off a 400MHZ G4 PPC
1 Gigabyte of ram

Server does Web Server
Radius WPA Enterprise Authentication
SQL
Mail (SMTP/POP3)
Webmail
Routing
Traffic Shaping
Traffic Graphing
File Server
Torrents
Internal DNS
Internal DHCP
Theres a reason i named it Vishnu :P

Yours should be fine even with win2k3 on it like kittie said, disable unwanted services.

[MaJ]

yeh dude, a p3 running freebsd would pwn anything youd buy commercially...

FreeBSD, the power to serve... (http://www.freebsd.org)