[CS-FSLUG] Prayer Request: Follow-up

[Jason Franklin]

I was hoping for a bit more in the way of concrete figures (e.g.  
minimum processor type and speed, minimum ram, minimum hard drive  
space etc.)

Jason Franklin
Christian/Husband/Father/Missionary
Westwood Bible Fellowship
pastor.jason at westwoodbf.com
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On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:00 AM, Ed Hurst wrote:

> On Saturday 19 January 2008 20:40 Jason Franklin wrote:
>> Please remind me, brother, what are you looking for in a server box?
>
> Required: reliability, enough horsepower to respond. The usage will be
> mostly simple static page serving plus email. I don't plan to run PHP
> or other scripting languages pulling from a DB. I may eventually run a
> Jabber service.
>
> Over the years I've spent recycling various kinds of hardware, and
> running several systems bought new, I find even the low-priced  
> machines
> designed as servers are far more reliable than just about any
> desktop/workstation box.
>
> I suppose, theoretically, even an ancient Pentium II would do the job,
> provided it has enough RAM. I plan to run something like Debian  
> Vanilla
> or CentOS. While I don't know an awful lot about server admin, I'll
> just have to dig into it.
>
> -- 
> Ed Hurst
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