I wanted to buy a server to run a website that im creating, but I don't want to spend a lot of money. How efficient would it be if I turned my Home PC into a server. If so, any suggestions on what I should upgrade.
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I wanted to buy a server to run a website that im creating, but I don't want to spend a lot of money. How efficient would it be if I turned my Home PC into a server. If so, any suggestions on what I should upgrade.
If you're running Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000 Professional, install IIS and you're set. I can't see that your computer would be insufficient rather the net connection's upload being the bottleneck, so anything that can run Windows + some extra RAM I'd say would do the trick.
Apache is probably a better way to go than IIS, which has restrictions since your a 'home user'.
It really depends on what your planning on hosting. If you're trying to do a website that gets thousands of hits a day, then you'll want a proper server but for something that gets < 100 you should be right?
Connection is important though. If your on dialup, theres not much point.
What restrictions? I run a web server using IIS, works extremly well.Quote:
Originally posted by Pc_Madness
Apache is probably a better way to go than IIS, which has restrictions since your a 'home user'.
I'm fairly sure it won't accept more than 10 connections?Quote:
Originally posted by Ideas Man
What restrictions? I run a web server using IIS, works extremly well.
IIS on client operating systems restricts to only 10 connections.
Given that you don't want to spend a lot of money, I would suggest a 3rd party webserver like Apache - as you won't want to spend the money on Windows Server.
Now if money wasn't an issue, I would suggest Windows 2003 Server - but alas - money is quite often the issue :D
I got Win2k Advanced Server. :p