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Today I took an old computer (Compaq Presario 5222, 350MHz Pentium III, 64MB or RAM, and 8GB HDD) and turned it into a web server.

I went with Debian 4.0 after two failed attempts of installing the server edition of Ubuntu. I installed Apache 2, PHP 5, and MySQL 5. I still need to install the OpenSSH server for remote administration.

I've decided that my blog gets very little traffic, so I've just decided to host it myself. Perhaps you'll be kind enough to pay it a visit and let me know what you think about the speed of everything. It's pretty old hardware, but my upload bandwidth tops out at 30KB/s -- so, it's not the fastest server in the sea.

Also, if anyone ever needs help setting up a LAMP server, just let me know.

seems ok for 30kb/s. its obviously not the fatest loading site in the world but not bad for tht upload bandwidth.

my dad threw my old computer away so i cant experiment on this myself

Hey Noah,

I plan on setting my old box up as a server(Streaming Security Cam video, FTP, basic site, etc) and I was wondering if there was a "general" LAMP server setup guide that basically shows everything needed to configure a server.

Your sites seems to load fine for me. Fasterfox's loading time shows 4.578s.

Noah, I'm using Etch 40rc1, Is it possible to create WebServer, BW Manager, Router, And Firewall on it?

On my thought now, I got Apache+OpenSSL, PHP, MySQL, Squid, SquidGuard.

Have no Idea whats the good firewall/proxy (the free one)

Any suggestion???

If its text based, then you should be fine. It will get nasty if you start hosting images and video though.

@ pointseven: YES! Squid is a great proxy, and you can get LAMP installations done in minutes these days