RE: [kDev] Serve Kendra Initiative!...

["Freeman, Andi" <andi.freeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Harris [mailto:daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 April 2001 11:30
......
> So, I guess what we're saying is it doesn't matter what 
> server hardware we 
> run the website on just as long as it can run PHP and MySQL 
> and we can give 
> out root access (which is our major problem at the moment). 
> Not having root 
> access restricts our ability to modify the MySQL database and 
> add other 
> functionality that may be considered non-standard on the 
> current shared server.
> 
> OK. So, we're saying get one server for website hosting for 
> the moment, yes?

This seems to be a good idea generally as it will speed up configuration and
development.

> 
> But it would be really handy to have a minimum specification 
> for when we go 
> out and ask a manufacturer to sponsor kI with the use of a 
> server for kI's 
> website hosting.
> 
> Minimum specification for server anyone?

Well a Compaq Proliant would be nice (ML370 I know, since we have them
here), but any newish box (PIII/750Mz/128MB/50GB) will be enough. At a pinch
an older machine could be used given the number of seats we can serve per
dev license on Real 8 (20 seats per machine). Its also clear than we aren't
really doing anything public for a while so we could imagine that even a
odler machine could cover us. We can always upgrade to a larger sponsored
box later on anway.

???

Andi Freeman