my dumb question of the day

[Kendrick-LUG]

Brian Kelsay wrote:

>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?
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>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.  
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>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
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>Brian Kelsay
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personally my biggest worri would be the cgiirc and maybe the webmail
I have a p90 64mb ram ide that runs just fine for most of that.   
apache1.3  php mysql and postfix.
it ran pretty good for that task till half the ram got fried