Sorry, I should have been more specific. :'(
My family tree is using text based files as the db to generate the web-pages.
There is also an option to use a SQL backend for the data. The SQL
backend can handle bigger family trees. But my tree is only one branch going
back only 400-500 years. Only a few thousands of records.
I think your machine will be  more than enough power to 
support several tens if not hundreds of users. My box is a webserver/mailserver/
firewall/ssh server (minimal to keep bad people from hacking into the box).
I have no performance issues. But my needs are few, and my standards forgiving
maybe. Also I'm not doing a lot of graphics intensive stuff on my site.
My mail server works as both webmail and remote secure-IMAP server. All running on 
debian.

Brian D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay 
>
> So you think that a SQL server could cause more slow down 
> than PHP?  How about with the server collecting mail, do you 
> see that as much of a load?  How many users do you think I 
> will be limited to?
> 
> Brian Kelsay
> 
> >>> "Brian Densmore" <> 07/02/04 01:19PM >>>
> 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.
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