MM server 2500sc help

[thedrunk]

Wanting to run a server for lans wans or web hosting I have in the garage a 2500sc dell power edge server with the 320 scsi and 2 gig ram along with twin 2Ghz xeon procs ....

what would my limits be hosting stuff form this machine besides bandwith?

I am a noob at server stuff even though I have built my share but putting together hardware vs runnign it is totally different

 

[Satchmo Bevins]

I'm not too clued-in when it comes to servers, but I took a look around and came up with THIS in a google search and bonged THIS in a Bing search.

It's interesting that Bing found something Google missed. That's something I see a lot of.

Bonging FTW!

Sorry, I'm not much help on this one. But when you get it running I can help you test it out. I can use my mighty 2-computer botnet to do a DDOS attack!!! If you decide to use a 2400-baud modem or something, that is.

Good luck!!

 

[Ian]

Your bandwidth would be the real limit here, I can't see the hardware being pushed beyond what your internet connection can cope with (unless you've got a 5Mbps+ upload connection).

To get most use out of that server you could turn it in to a media centre using some software like XBMC : http://xbmc.org/. That way you can store all your music, photos and videos on it and access it in your home on a TV (assuming you can connect your server to a TV with the right graphics card and cables).

If you want to run a web server, you'll need to download some webserver software (probably apache or IIS). However, there is a very easy bundle called XAMPP which contains everything you need to run a webserver in a single package. I'd only use it for a test environment though, but it's great to understand how things work.

You can download XAMPP here and read up on all the docs to see how it works

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

 

[thedrunk]

Your bandwidth would be the real limit here, I can't see the hardware being pushed beyond what your internet connection can cope with (unless you've got a 5Mbps+ upload connection).

To get most use out of that server you could turn it in to a media centre using some software like XBMC : http://xbmc.org/. That way you can store all your music, photos and videos on it and access it in your home on a TV (assuming you can connect your server to a TV with the right graphics card and cables).

If you want to run a web server, you'll need to download some webserver software (probably apache or IIS). However, there is a very easy bundle called XAMPP which contains everything you need to run a webserver in a single package. I'd only use it for a test environment though, but it's great to understand how things work.

You can download XAMPP here and read up on all the docs to see how it works

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

well The video cards I have can connect via a S-video card but the tv's I have are way old...... rca connectors....... I have to wait for collage monies before i am gonna do a media server....

but I am going to check out xampp