imported_Rugbee

{ I have recently completed migrating Marijuana.Com to a new webserver. Our new server is a dual Xeon 2.4Ghz with 2GB ram and 2 80GB SCSI drives.}


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I had noticed that Rick updated to a new S-E-r-ver and could not help but wonder what a web server is... for instance... When people run/own a website do they put their website on a spare computer, just leave it sitting there, and use it has the host for their website or do they run the website on their home computer plus what is all this famous Duel Xeon SQL PHP mean

PsYcHoLoGiCaL

web server

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SQL

Xeon

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IGemini

Damn, that's a nice server that this forum is on.

imported_Rugbee

I give up
All this computer mambo jumbo is to complicated – One thing always leads to another

anonymity

Mambo jumbo? What are you smoking? Oh yeah, pot. (Simpsons reference)

imported_Rugbee

So… Is the computer that I am using now capable of being a server? Or would additional software be needed to make it one

0R788 Processor, 80532, 2.53G, 512K, 533FSB, Software Kogyo 1 1P460 Assembly, Card (Circuit), Planar (Motherboard), 850E, DIM8200 1 6H257 Keyboard, 104, 6P, United States, Audio, NMB, Midnight Gray 1 735HE Mouse, Personal System 2, 6P, 2BTN, Wheel, 1.3A, MICROSOFT, Midnight Gray 1 6M479 Digital Video Disk Drive, DVD+RW, 4.7G, IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), PHPS-CP, Revision, Chassis 2001 1 9K689 Kit, Compact Diskette, Compact Disk Read Write, Roxio, V5.1E4 1 5740C Cable, Auxiliary, Internal, Modem, 4C 1 8F217 Modem, V.92, Internal, Data/Fax/Voice, SOFT, Zinc, Dimension 1 611WY Compact Disk Drive, 128K, IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), 5.25" Form Factor, 20/48X, LTN-486, Chassis 2001 1 38FRH Card (Circuit), Multi-Media, Audio, SANTA CRUZ 1 7E840 Kit, Speaker, 120V, HK395, Samsung, Dell Americas Organization 1 4N458 Card (Circuit), GRPHC, 128MB, NV25, Dimension 1 8G152 Display, Flat Panel Display, 17, Dual, 1702FP, Midnight Gray, Dell Americas Organization 1 2D067 Floppy Drive, 1.44M, 3.5" Form Factor, 3MD, No Bezel, SONY, Chassis 2001, W3 1 2J531 Kit, Compact Diskette, Driver, MGI, 1394 1 6D906 Card (Circuit), Controller, 1394A, PC Interface, Loop, TI/SCI 1 9J418 Removable Media Storage, Zip Drive, 250M, IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), 3.5" Form Factor, IOMEGA, Chassis 2001, HCT 1 8J598 Kit, Software, Norton Antivirus 2002, 5.25" Form Factor, England/English, Retail 1 0J568 Kit, Software, MS-MNY-2K2, Original Equipment Mfgr., England/English 1 0E784 Kit, Software, OFCXPSB, England/English, Original Equipment Mfgr. 1 8P472 Kit, Software, OFCXP-SP1, England/English 1 8K233 Kit, Software, Overpack, Windows XP pro, Compact Diskette w/Documentation, England/English, A01 1 7R416 Card (Circuit), Network, Ethernet, PC Interface, 10/100, MDP 1 8R080 Kit, DOC/DSK, Software, Digital Video Disk Drive, CYBERLINK, 4.0, 2CH 1 2K222 Hard Drive, 120G, IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), 1N, 7.2K, WD-XL40 4 4T235 Rambus Inline Memory Module, 256, 400M, 128X16, 8C, 40 1 44FCJ Printer/Printer Accessories, Cable, USBD4B-10, Light
Dimension 8200 Series, Intel Pentium 4,Processor,at 2.53GHz
1024MB PC800 RDRAM
17 in (17.0 in viewable) 1702FP Digital Flat PaneDisplay
128MB DDR NVidia GeForce4 TI 4600 Graphics Card with TV-OUT and DVI
Dell Edition 120GB 7200RPM Hard Drive with Data,Burst Cache,Tied
3.5in Floppy Drive
Dell Application Back-up CD, Factory Install
Intel Pro 100 PCI Ethernet Network Card
56K PCI Telephony Modem for Windows
48X Max Variable CD-ROM Drive
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP, Sound Card
Harmon Kardon HK-395 Speakers
50MB Iomega Zip Built-In Drive
DVD+RW/ CD-RW Combination Drive
Digital Content Authoring Software
Cyberlink Software Decoding for DVD Drives

imported_Rugbee

LOL
Weiisky
Yeah, same blend different day

manny

You'll need another program to do the webserving stuff. Apache is the most popular, and runs under many different operating systems. I use it myself to test out php scripts. It's pretty big, but with a computer like yours you shouldn't have a problem running it (it runs fine on my computer, and 20 of my kind of computer would probably equal your computer's power).

Also, you should probably keep your web server and your home computer seperate for security reasons (servers are more visible targets for attacks).

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It's so great, being able to come to a site like this and pretend we all smoke pot...

Zilos

I use Abyss Web Server from http://www.aprelium.com/ its free and very easy to use, it also has very easy instructions to get ASP, or PHP running, and runs on many different OS's

imported_digitalxtremist

to make things slightly more complicated - its not just the machine specs, bandwidth is very important. for example, I used to pay $900/mo for a t1 - then $800, then $600/mo -- and now I totally gave up on that route because a t1 is a mediocre fraction of what I get in terms of bandwidth by having a leased server on a world class network in new york.

if the next question is "what's bandwidth" -- visualize your server as some beverage, and your visitors trying to drink through a straw of variable size. the bigger the straw the more they get faster ----- bandwidth, the size of the pipe to the internet... most cable connections are 3mb downloading, 256 kb uploading (large difference)... a T1 is usually 1.544 up and ~1.544mb down (3.2 total).... vs the bigger lines like I'm on -- 45mb to 133mb....huge difference... it's VERY noticable if a server is on a low bandwidth connection

hope thats low on geekspeak

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