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1. Linux as WWW Server - hardware/performance advice wanted

Hello fellow linux folks,

I will be setting up a linux box to run as a WWW server (using Apache's
server most likely). Currently, I'm running on a Pentium 90 with an
IDE hard drive and 32 Megs of RAM. I suspect that I'll need to go
SCSI. What I'm looking for is real-world experiences/comments/advice
that others have with respect to running a WWW server. I expect
a relatively moderate load - somewhere in the neighborhood of 5k-10k
hits per day, w/ ~10 percent of those hits involving the execution of
some sort of cgi script on the server. Some of my questions are:

1) What is the most likely bottleneck - presumably disk I/O?
2) How much RAM would typically be necessary/sufficient? 32M, 64M, etc.?
3) Will the processor (P90) be a potential bottleneck, or needn't I worry
about it?
4) What about the ethernet card's bandwidth - is 10Mbps typically sufficient
for a server of this level?

Many thanks!

Steve Harrington
Tejas A&M University

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