From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 12:45:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E2F81065676 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from liuweinan85@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA3B38FC1E for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:45:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from liuweinan85@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so2166343waf.3 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:45:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:to:subject:from:organization:content-type:mime-version:references:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=8VfWKnLlf3yPaGwMTrz+PiNdcvoFTP6OevYxJ/0Qr34=; b=FsMusxNPJ7aYbs7QkrX93dKJxde29jhOHUzXi/QIlfFmrUqRnPFVDOzrjrhwXbl9Richq5sbrdzVnWtZdHPxRY3yk8sNmFOUnxy37uIqn3iyVmWfVv0Up9Mv5PqSfzuJdzzJDRMeA3bNw+K4SjkfE7PFjvN0P5WLFy3zalzNDIg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:to:subject:from:organization:content-type:mime-version:references:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=diO5hCXypHCespzLRvgQGmqYfpFcFQaJ0Jn0gInRaQwORnSiexo6Zkzi3guOd51dSDa1V5Pj7cSocn2BgugwQc+9isJp4d/5sgzQNK0KsMTdmaOnEDaitZEHGTz09hO1gJ2+1kDC3RtJlw2mU8UE4Ft6Hi0gMR0tJfwW+i/NixQ= Received: by 10.114.170.1 with SMTP id s1mr6763106wae.54.1204807504443; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:45:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from liuweinan ( [124.78.54.161]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j29sm1909640waf.18.2008.03.06.04.44.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:45:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:44:46 +0800 To: "Ivan Voras" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Vivian Liu" Organization: Meteorain Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=gbk MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.50 (Win32) Cc: Subject: Re: Some questions about installing a web server. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:45:05 -0000 Thanks a lot again. There are running some application has been built using PHP in this web box. Also need a small mail system and mysql for a game server that running on a win2003 machine. Maybe I need to upgrade the memory to 8G. Regards. Vivian On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:07:05 +0800, Ivan Voras wrote: > ÁõΰÄÏ wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm a freshman man here. Please do not mind my silly questions. >> >> I am ready to install a web server, the main hardwares are as follows: >> CPU 4-core xeon 5410 * 2 >> MEM kingston 2G EEC FBD667 * 2 >> HD ST146G SAS 15K * 1 >> >> I have several questions. >> Which platform should I chooses? amd64 or i386? > > Unless you need software that doesn't work on i386, you should install > amd64. > >> Is 4G memory enough for 2000 people online? > > This is very much dependent on what will the server actually do. For a > simple web (PHP?) application, yes. For a very complex web application, > no. You probably also need a database there, and that will complicate > things. > >> If you have others suggestions please tell me. >> Thanks in advance. > > I suppose the disk drive specification is a placeholder - you'll > probably need many more drives in real deployment. >