leoftw
07-09-2007, 12:59 AM
What Software and hardware to build a internet server to run my personal website ?
I'm a newbie to servers and I tried googiling it but I got a bunch of mixed results.
You dont actually need anything, a normal PC with WinXP pro already got everything you need. Install the web server from Control panel - Add/remove programs - Windows Components - Internet information services.
On a dedicated webserver Apache is nice, comes for both Windows and Linux. Apache + Linux + PHP is the most widely used setup on the WWW, good stuff for free.
I use webserver on Windows so i can make use of serverside ActiveX/DLLs in PHP scripts. I have both Apache and IIS installed, PHP on both ofcourse, I leave Apache as the default and start the IIS service only once in a while when playing with ASP/ASPX.
Hardware for dedicated webserver for only your own stuff dont need much power, a P3 might be weak for running advanced stuff though. Depends on how many users you expect to use it simultaneously but you do NOT need 8 processors and 16GB RAM in any case =)
Also need to configure your DSL router to forward HTTP requests to the webserver if running from a home network + registering a domain name (no-ip.org is still free)