The Dimmest LAMP

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:58 am

I know I've talked about my P233 64MB w/Slack around here ad nauseum, but after Judland mentioned a PII that he was using for a webserver the other day, I thought it would be interesting to see who had the crappiest webserver running.

Granted, I'm the only one going to my website, but I still think it's cool that a computer that most people have sitting in their attic with 95 on it can serve a website so well.

If it's not a bad security idea, I'll post the URL for people to check out and would be interested in seeing what other people are able to do with their POSs.

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:06 am

My blog server is my dad's crappy old emachine workstation:
400 mhz
64 meg of ram
10 gig hard drive

It's happily running Debian
http://pdavila.homelinux.org/blog/

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:37 am

Cool deal Pat.

My URL on my POS is

http://www.233mhz.com

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:54 pm

I have mrtg running on a soekris net4801 box, if that counts. This same little box also serves as a mail server.

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:21 am

Usually FreeBSD is famous for running on low horsepowered machines. There are alternative webservers that doesnt has to be apache. Some of them include monkeyserver, tinyhttpd etc.

SQLite is also a very lightweight database and a great programming language can be PHP, but also there has been other even slimmer language like awk running on cgi.

I am not sure if the awk proposal can merge with the whole SQLite-MonkeyServer stack but it will definetly be something interesting to try out.

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:02 am

Here's more details on my LAMP:

Toshiba Satellite laptop 2100CDS with an AMD K6-2 400 MHz CPU, 32 MB RAM, 4.3 GB hard drive, running Slackware 10.0.

It ain't fancy, but I like having a laptop as my server because it takes up little space (sit it on a shelf under the desk) and very little electricty to run.

godzero · Post by **godzero** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:24 pm

I've always been intrigued by the idea of an old, 1/2 dead laptop as a HTTP/etc server. I mean come on - screen busted - no prob, low RAM - no prob, slow CPU - no prob. Eats only ~20watts - AWESOME!

Semi-static pages served from a live ISO that could fit in RAM is one area this could excel.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:52 am

my old web/mail server was IBM laptop 486DX 48M ram amd 3.2 ? G disk
work for 3 yers no problems at all
still working as thin client in costomer office (if you cant use it sale it )

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:08 am

Mavor,

If that was still running, it would definitely qualify for the dimmest LAMP!

Judland,

Is the laptop you described running your blog? If so, the response time there is pretty impressive.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:34 am

it was
now in using Vhost on TekTonic (the 8$ package) but it coud hold my site
my home bandwidth was the issue

im my country 64K upload is alot

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:59 am

johnnywtllts wrote: Judland,
Is the laptop you described running your blog? If so, the response time there is pretty impressive.

Not yet. I haven't moved my blog over to my own server yet. Although it is serving up the photos I'm displaying on my blog, as well as photos I use on forum postings, such as TLLTS. It's also serving up my web page http://www.virtualsky.net

The only thing that is slowing it down would be my Internet provider. The DSL service I use provide fast download speeds, but is slower on uploads. So I'd say that is the major bottleneck for me right now.

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:22 pm

Okay, cool.

Probably not new to many, but there's a good bandwidth test at http://www.auditmypc.com/internet-speed-test.asp.

I'm getting 4.8M down but only 272K up (from Road Runner in NC). So I guess the 272K would be my bandwidth for my server.

Also, there's a good web site speed meter at http://www.tracert.com/sm.html. Needless to say, my pages at Go Daddy kicked my home server's ass by about 5 to 1.