From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 11:44:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10370 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:44:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [209.47.148.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10356 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.8.8/8.7.5) with SMTP id OAA18071; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:43:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:43:24 -0400 (EDT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: David Chamberlain cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Apache and databases In-Reply-To: <35ED9035.1A7934E1@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, David Chamberlain wrote: > The computer that I have for an internal company web server is a 486sx/33 with > 8mb of RAM and about 300 MB of disk. > > This works OK for a web server when their are probably never more that 5 > people looking at the pages at once. I just don't think it will make a decent > SQL server. Maybe I am wrong, though. You should try it, you might be surprised. We ran PostgreSQL on a *slightly* more power machine for about 8 months or so, handling a dial-up accounting system (the database was used for both dialup time log files as well as authentication)...if you design your databases well enough, you shouldn't have a problem...a little faster with more powerful server, but then you can always use that for a justification ... "yes sir, it is a little bit slow, but we are trying to show what is possible, and with even a small investment in some hardware, we could really make this puppy bark"...what is the current cost of RAM in the US? Up here, I think its something like $200CDN for 128Meg of RAM? (haven't priced out in a while, so forgive me if I'm way out on that)... but, if you are only talking about 5 ppl looking at the pages at once, I don't see you not being able to get away with it...but, with 300MB of disk, alot depends on how big your databases are... > > David Chamberlain > > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, David Chamberlain wrote: > > > > > I want to create a web page that publishes dynamic information from a > > > database. The data that I have to publish is currently in Access, but I could > > > easily move it to an Informix server that we have running on SCO Unix. > > > > > > I could also, possibly, move it to one of the free SQL servers, like MySQL, > > > that runs on FreeBSD, but that would mean buying some hardware that I don't > > > think I could get approved right now. > > > > Why would that mean buying some hardware? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message