i want to learn server administration.. so thought of setting up an old pc (1.2 GHZ, 256 ram, 20GB HDD) as server.. and test my skills on it.. can somebody gime a rough idea how much concurrent connections.. (unique visitors) would be possible for a simple website.. on 1Mbps connection? i normally get an upload speed of around 50KB
your bottleneck will be the upload speed. Hard to say, because some connection are fairly stable while others are variable. Hosting from home might not be a good idea, as if you browse for personnal use it cut in the bandwidht you allow your server to use.
Camay is correct, the upload speed will be your bottleneck. I would suggest you get a VPS. Look for providers that will allow you to automatically restore your VPS to its original state if you mess something up while testing. This is an ideal feature for testing new things out.
thanks for the replies buddies.. will i be able to work on vps just like on a home server? i mean wouldnt be there any restrictions about installing new programs.. modify apache, php etc? a lil confused..
No you'd be able to do what you like with the VPS. There's slight differences between a VPS and an actual server in terms of configuration (hostnames, rDNS, quota, etc...), but you can install/configure any software to your liking.
What kind of OS do you want to administer... it is very different to run Linux based server from Windows... But anyway you need to learn Apache webserver, php/mysql, webmail server and OS management.
another thread in the same forum guided me to CentOS.. i got my hands dirty a bit by using XAMPP.. iam a quick learner and will try to lean server administration by googling around as well as helping guys at DP.. etc