Hmm..
Not sure where to put this, in hardware or software.
But what's the minimum system for something running a LAMP setup? I recently retired the old Celeron system for a slightly (very slightly) newer system, a 1GHz Duron. But PHPBB still seems a little slow, and so do a few other PHP and MySQL related things.
The system has a measly 384MB of RAM, but it's fairly temporary, as soon as I can get some stuff to replace it. I might just make my Pentium 4 system the server instead..
But what's the minimum system for something running a LAMP setup? I recently retired the old Celeron system for a slightly (very slightly) newer system, a 1GHz Duron. But PHPBB still seems a little slow, and so do a few other PHP and MySQL related things.
The system has a measly 384MB of RAM, but it's fairly temporary, as soon as I can get some stuff to replace it. I might just make my Pentium 4 system the server instead..
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WinBoards, once upon a time, was hosted on a P4. I think it survived on less than that at some point in its life...
I just upgraded it to a P4 system, and it's still doing it. I have a feeling that's not the problem. And I'm not accessing it via the internet, I'm accessing it from across the room. Is there maybe something I'm doing wrong here?
Or could it just be my router?
Because it suddenly is working just fine. It's running perfectly now. Perfectly. Everything is speedy and smooth. I've done nothing, and I mean, literally nothing to it. But it's working smoothly now.
What the hell is going on here?
It's Linux. This is normal.
Probably some background process eating up CPU cycles...
is this a fresh phpBB install or an old one?
So I have no idea what's going on. This has happened with three different systems, it's the reason I'm transplanting the hard drive. What could be going on here?
Wait, so you've been moving the hard drive between three different systems? Keeping the same OS install on all three?
If so, that should tell you the problem isn't with hardware. Unless it's the hard drive itself. The problem is likely in software... so backup the files and try reinstalling the OS.
Well there's also a chance it's the hard drives. They're older, slower hard drives. I'm going to try with a newer one tomorrow, and with a new Debian install. I'm sure that a Northwood Pentium 4, hell, even a 1GHz Duron should be enough for a simple PHPBB3 forum with only one user.
And it's release cycle. Even though a lot of people bash it for having out of date packages, I've always liked the fact that most updates are just security updates and don't require much configuring. If I wanted modern packages, I'd use Sid.
Hope you figure out if the hard drives are causing the bottleneck, at least then we can fully rule out hardware.
I've had to learn Linux because that's what my university teaches. They are working on teaching more Windows stuff now, but for most of my time there, all they've taught is Linux.
It is nice because I never got much into Linux on my own. I dabbled here and there, but preferred to stay in Windows.
Now I can live happily in either OS. I still prefer Windows for most things, but there's a few things I'd prefer to use Linux for. Mostly on the server side of things.
Yeah, but you can do that on Windows now too.
The Windows command line can be quite powerful as well, especially with powershell.
You can disable the desktop completely, leaving you with a text only system?
Why do I not know how to do this?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 84075.aspx
I mean, as much as a Windows server can. If you're doing Windows stuff it'll be great, anyway.
I have scripts to manage AD and DNS remotely. It's awesome sauce.
Eh, well I've had a busy week. Hopefully monday I'lll get to finish setting it up again, and see if it does it again. I already reinstalled Debian, I just didn't configure anything.