I need input on my server setup please

[leezer3]

Hiya,
I'm looking for a little input on my server setup please
The machine in question is an AMD Duron 1ghz with 256mb RAM. I'm going to be running an internal webserver (Site testing only, want PHP, CGI & SQL) various download progs, as well as standard network shares to a couple of Windows/ Linux machines.
Anyway, onto the problems at hand
1. I'm not entirely sure quite how much admin the machine is going to want- I'm very tempted to run VNC to Gnome simply for the ease of playing with torrents etc. If so, what would be the best program? Alternatively, is there a torrent/ standard P2P networks program that can be remote controlled easily?
2. Webserver wise, I've never tried running anything accesible from further than localhost; Anything special I want there?
3. Perhaps the most important- What distro? I've always run Mandriva (Cooker) on my standard fileserving box & a Debian varient on the standard desktop. I'm very tempted by Gentoo for this build as its going to be pretty much static, but how long would the full optimised compile take on a machine of this spec?

Anyone with any other experience/ input very welcome

-Leezer-

 

[Hamish]

For Bittorrent I would use Azureus, I has built in or addon (cant remember) HTML torrent management.

 

[adamofgreyskull]

Hiya,
I'm looking for a little input on my server setup please
The machine in question is an AMD Duron 1ghz with 256mb RAM. I'm going to be running an internal webserver (Site testing only, want PHP, CGI & SQL) various download progs, as well as standard network shares to a couple of Windows/ Linux machines.
Anyway, onto the problems at hand
1. I'm not entirely sure quite how much admin the machine is going to want- I'm very tempted to run VNC to Gnome simply for the ease of playing with torrents etc. If so, what would be the best program? Alternatively, is there a torrent/ standard P2P networks program that can be remote controlled easily?

2. Webserver wise, I've never tried running anything accesible from further than localhost; Anything special I want there? .

3. Perhaps the most important- What distro? I've always run Mandriva (Cooker) on my standard fileserving box & a Debian varient on the standard desktop. I'm very tempted by Gentoo for this build as its going to be pretty much static, but how long would the full optimised compile take on a machine of this spec?

Anyone with any other experience/ input very welcome

-Leezer-

1) I have mldonkey installed on my machine, opens a port 4080 that you can browse to and control it via a (not very pretty but functional) web interface...but hey, if your trade is PHP/CGI then maybe you can work on improving it

2) Webserver, I'd say Apache, only because it's what I've used (read, installed and forgotten from install media, nothing very funky) If it's just a testbed, then you could simply use the network ip instead of localhost, or put a line in hosts to resolve "foowebsitename" to the (static) ip so you only have to type in foowebsitename to view default webpage. Unless you have lots of users, DNS would be overkill I think.

3) Slackware? My answer to most questions...good server distro, relatively static, very stable.

Just FYI: A list of times taken to release update version of sendmail following discovery of critical vuln on 22nd March (Source: Linux Format June 2006)
Red Hat Enterprise---------0:16 hrs
Lineox Enterprise-----------0:56 hrs
SUSE----------------------------1:10hrs
Fedora Core------------------2:58hrs
Gentoo--------------------------3:50hrs
FreeBSD-----------------------4:09hrs
Slackware---------------------4:14hrs
Centos--------------------------6:16hrs
Mandriva-----------------------8:21hrs
Debian-------------------------17:27hrs