my dumb question of the day

[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