I have some of my family tree on my website
http://www.amason.net/
It runs on PHP, and I am not using the SQL db option behind it.
I can tell you it doesn't have anything as powerful as you describe, and 
seems to run fine for me. But then again, It hasn't had probably more than
2 or 3 users on it at a time.

HTH,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay 
> 
> OK, you know about me building a webserver.  For a few things 
> I want to do, PHP could be involved.  Not a problem to 
> install, but will the hardware be beefy enough to handle it 
> or should I attempt a Perl alternative.  I don't expect to 
> have more than a few users, this is just for fun.   The box 
> will be anywhere from a PII-300 to a PIII-500.  I will 
> probably throw a SCSI drive and controller in to speed up I/O 
> on the old girl.   440BX or LX chipset up to 384MB PC100 ram. 
>   Is this going to be over kill for the small number of users 
> or not enough?
> 
> To be on the safe side, say I am the only user unless one or 
> two family members want to use webmail from the box.   Am I 
> being to hopeful that this will work?  I'm just wanting to 
> screw around and maybe learn something.  
> 
> So far planned:
> Debian via Mepis
> Apache
> Perl
> PHP
> Python
> MySQL
> PHP-Nuke plus some plugin/modules
> CGIirc
> kwiki or qwiki, both perl based I think
> a few static pages
> Gallery or PHP Gallery
> Exim
> Open Webmail or Squirrel Mail
> 
> Brian Kelsay
> 
> 
>