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Old laptop as web server
Name: Ryan Date: November 20, 2003 at 17:03:59 Pacific OS: 98se CPU/Ram: see below
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I have an old laptop. It's an ibm thinkpad. Pentium 266 with 80mb of ram. i was thinking about using it as a web server. Is it powerfull enough? Would it be too slow. It will only need to handle 1-2 connections at the same time.
Name: anonproxy Date: November 20, 2003 at 19:04:44 Pacific
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Those specs are fine for a small web server.
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Response Number 2
Name: dddeee Date: November 20, 2003 at 23:00:28 Pacific
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Depends what OS and software you are planning on running.
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Response Number 3
Name: sonnysandiego Date: November 21, 2003 at 00:41:10 Pacific
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try it. what do you have to lose?
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Response Number 4
Name: Ryan Date: November 21, 2003 at 05:56:56 Pacific
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What os would you recomend? What software? Prefferably both free.
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Response Number 5
Name: Steve Date: November 21, 2003 at 11:41:54 Pacific
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For that Price range, i would use linux. Like Mandrake or redhat, or you could try freeBSD, with apache for your web server. Good Luck!!!
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Response Number 6
Name: x86 Date: November 21, 2003 at 15:39:35 Pacific
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OPENDOS 7.01:
http://horde.planetmirror.com/pub/drdos/
EZ-NOS Web Server:
http://www.eznos.org/
Also look at Internet Extender:
http://www-acc.scu.edu/~jsarich/ieweb/main.htm
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Response Number 7
Name: Luzer Date: November 21, 2003 at 21:14:22 Pacific
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Apache2triad has everyting on it. Apache,Mysql,SSL,PHP,FTPserver,Perl,Mailserver. You can get it here http://www.disturbedmindz.com/triad/ homepage http://apache2triad.sourceforge.net/
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Response Number 8
Name: anonproxy Date: November 22, 2003 at 21:11:31 Pacific
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Since your requirements are almost non-existent, you could get away with Windows98 and Apache. But I would run Mandrake, SuSE, or Redhat with Apache.
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Response Number 9
Name: sonnysandiego Date: November 22, 2003 at 21:53:14 Pacific
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ryan, what type of service do you want to host?
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Response Number 10
Name: Ryan Date: November 23, 2003 at 08:52:40 Pacific
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I want to host files (pictures, videos, and web pages) for my family to view. I'm going to hook the laptop up to my cable modem(through a router) and leave it on. Then family mebers can always view my files.
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