What are some ideal website server specifications?
December 1st, 2013
Is this good for website hosting with a database? I know hosting from your home is a bad idea, but I want to try and get it started working and testing stuff.
Should work fine for a web server. Graphics card is irrelevant since there won’t be a monitor hooked up. Your upload bandwidth will play a large role in all the files you serve.
Little more about private server’s from another thread:
SmAsHeDr replied: Hawafanus replied: Actually i was curious about the servers ? Is it some special computer or a normal one we use?
A server is just a computer designed to be a server.
Personal PC's need descent video cards for displays, lots of USB ports for peripherals, and are designed for people to use them as personal computers.
Servers are designed for serving things such as websites, files, databases, email, etc. The big difference in a server and a PC is that the server must remain powered on, working, and hooked up to the internet 24/7. Every time you load a web page, you connect to a computer that is on and hooked up to the internet. Most servers designed to be servers have redundant parts that can be hot swapped to avoid down time when hardware goes out.
Hawafanus replied: if you own a domain name can you launch your website through your private server. I mean can you make your computer a kind of data center? I am really new to severs, i tried to find the information in wikipedia and google, but was not so elborated.
Of course you can. I have 2 servers my self, that are just desktop's transformed into servers. I would never host my primary websites on them however, because if my Internet or power ever went out, the website would be inaccessible until they came back on. Or if any hardware broke on my server, again, the website would be inaccessible until I repair the computer and turn it back on. Furthermore, anyone downloading from your server, or accessing webpages will be using your upload bandwidth. So anyone downloading from your website is limited to your upload bandwidth speed.
Other info... With a server you need more RAM than required by most PC's, and it is good to have multiple HDD's in a RAID1 for data security. Your residential ISP may not allow you to run a server (even tho they will probably never find out). Its best to have a static IP, even tho you can use services such as no-ip and dyndns. You will have to configure static local IP's and configure port forwarding.
If that did not answer your question, then you should probably answer mine so I can provide better feedback.
Do you only need a monitor when installing your website info on it? I can’t imagine installing a server without a monitor lol.
jasonxman replied: Do you only need a monitor when installing your website info on it? I can't imagine installing a server without a monitor lol.
You will probably need to plug in a monitor to install the OS, then its all remote.
If you like GUI’s, I recommend you install VNC. I use TightVNC.
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php