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Title: Need help w/ small server
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 08, 2005, 05:18:23 pm
I'm setting up a small web server for an RPG I'm settin' up. I'm not using Microsoft software because too expensive. I plan on using Linux and Apache Web Server. Can anyone recommend a distro of Linux that would be good for this? I am limited to a 4.3GB HDD for the system drive.
Title: Re: Need help w/ small server
Post by: CheffoJeffo on July 08, 2005, 08:16:52 pm
What are you going to DO with the server ? (e.g. what does the server have to do with the RPG, what services are you planning to run, etc.)

Cheers.
Title: Re: Need help w/ small server
Post by: Sephroth57 on July 09, 2005, 01:13:08 am
sounds like a MUD im assuming?
Title: Re: Need help w/ small server
Post by: D10 on July 09, 2005, 01:27:08 am
Any distro would work. Just use which ever you are comfortable/familiar with. If you are going to tbe just serving pages for a small site you should be fine, but if you want to store user info in a database and such you might want to get more drive space.
Title: Re: Need help w/ small server
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 09, 2005, 01:29:20 am
MUD?

I plan on hosting both a small website and a message board. I am going to throw another hard disk in there for data storage, since the OS will likely take up most of the drive. The computer I'm using is a 366MHz Celery with 192MB RAM

 
Title: Re: Need help w/ small server
Post by: Sephroth57 on July 09, 2005, 01:34:52 am
MUD, multi user dungeon, text RPG... guess not. its pretty oldschool
Title: Re: Need help w/ small server
Post by: D10 on July 09, 2005, 01:35:38 am
Stands for Multi user dungeon a text based RPG.


Oops beat me to it
Title: Re: Need help w/ small server
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 09, 2005, 02:21:37 am
Well, it will essentially be text based, except for some pics on the web site and ranks pictures on the boards.
Title: Re: Need help w/ small server
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 09, 2005, 02:25:20 am
If worse comes to worse, I'll link to an invisionfree forum
Title: Re: Need help w/ small server
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 09, 2005, 10:21:30 pm
Right now, I'm trying to install Slackware. I've heard its very versitile