Quarterbore
12-26-2006, 04:53 PM
I have been looking for an "inexpensive" server for a while and I finally pulled the trigger on a Dell 2400 PowerEdge with one 1Ghz PIII processor, 1GB Ram, four 18GB hard drives in Raid 5.
I want it primarily to serve as a file share as I just depend on my desktop harddrives too much and backing things up is just too much of a hastle to DVDs so I plan to add a 20/40Gig DLT to make it easier to do backups I can lock in the safty deposit box in case the house should melt down :confused: I may also add a secong 1GHz PIII processor as I can get one for about $125 and the server will support duel 1GHz PIII processors (I need to see if I think I need that) I am not planning to hook this up to the web to use as a webserver but I would like to use it as an intranet as well as a file share.
What I don't know is what operating system I want to install? I believe I will be getting the licence certificate for Windows Server 2000 but I need to see. If not, I will need to purchase something and I am debating if I should go with a Win 2000 / Win 2003 Server or a Linux server package (Redhat or ?).
I hope to install Apache, PHP, and MYSQL in this box to allow me to do site development directly on the server as at the moment I am doing everything on a remote server via FTP and that is a painfully slow process.
Can someone share your advise?
I can not afford a $1,500 to $3,000 server at the moment so I need to et started with this entry level machine which without the operating system I will have about $500 into!
I want it primarily to serve as a file share as I just depend on my desktop harddrives too much and backing things up is just too much of a hastle to DVDs so I plan to add a 20/40Gig DLT to make it easier to do backups I can lock in the safty deposit box in case the house should melt down :confused: I may also add a secong 1GHz PIII processor as I can get one for about $125 and the server will support duel 1GHz PIII processors (I need to see if I think I need that) I am not planning to hook this up to the web to use as a webserver but I would like to use it as an intranet as well as a file share.
What I don't know is what operating system I want to install? I believe I will be getting the licence certificate for Windows Server 2000 but I need to see. If not, I will need to purchase something and I am debating if I should go with a Win 2000 / Win 2003 Server or a Linux server package (Redhat or ?).
I hope to install Apache, PHP, and MYSQL in this box to allow me to do site development directly on the server as at the moment I am doing everything on a remote server via FTP and that is a painfully slow process.
Can someone share your advise?
I can not afford a $1,500 to $3,000 server at the moment so I need to et started with this entry level machine which without the operating system I will have about $500 into!