hello all,
this is my first post here, i am a newby to linux (before you get surprised of my questions).

here's my story, i have started a website on the net last year and it had some nice success, so I thought why not having my own server !! asking some good friends they said "sure, u have to use Linux!" , I said why ? "they said, because your site is based on mysql and php, beside, linux faster, better, etc", so I said "this will be my server" !!

I bought myself a NEC TM1400, 4xSCSI 19Gb hard disks, 2 Gbyte Ram, Xeon 1.8 Mhz, everybody said thats just great ! so I am happy with that, I installed Redhat 8, plugged the box to my router, the box is up and running nicely (NEC comes with windows 2K server, which is installed on the first hard disk, now RH is on the second).

now, i need to ask, I have a 512/128 DSL connection to the net, once I had 72 users connected at the same time to my site, can my system/adsl handle this in your opinion ?

second, just recently, i heard that Redhat was not the proper choice, FreeBSD is better, is that true ? if yes, how do I uninstall redhad and install freebsd ? (again, i am a newby, if freebsd is for pro, then i prefer staying with redhat).

third, redhat used one of the hard disks, how can i add a second hard disk ? I still have another two that i can see from windows but not from RH, and what is the best way to transfer files between ntfs and linuxFS (i don't know what is the name of linux fs) ?

this is just to say hi, I have more specific problems /questions that i will post later each in its forum, i hope i enjoy it in here.

thank you,

The question here is can the users handle 1.72K/s ;)
which is what they will be getting (numerically) on your
upstream per head.... :D

Stay with RH :}

You change the partition type of the partition on the
disk, you run mkext3fs (mkreiserfs, ... - whichever you
like best)

FAT32

Cheers,
Tink

i guess it should be pointed out yet again there is no linuxfs, linux can suport nearly every single file system (basic suport for most), and only read suport for ntfs (i thought i saw a project somere to add full ntfs suport), the main fs's are jfs (never haerd anyone use this), ex2t/ex2t fs (popular but in my expereince gets curupt easly), reiserfs (a high performance fs), and xfs (the other high performance fs, but there web site i coulded find any info beyon who uses this and what not) --for web server id say reiserfs and xfs are the 2 main fs's

XFS?

FYKI its not ex2t its ext2, AFAIK its very stable filesystem, been using it for the past 3 yrs without any problem on my office server which is beeing accesed by 50 odd ppl

JFS - journaling file system, ext3 has this

redhat will stop supporting redhat linux by april this year, after that u have to buy redhat enterprise linux from them.

try slackware, freeBSD both are good

but not as user friendly as redhat espessially from the installation point of view

Hello

I think purchasing such a great computer wasnt important, brodband is the most important , if you run a server wish 72 users that are connected TOGETHER,i think its really not enough you might see @ 512 upstream...

I can only have ADSL, no other solution for my home, i contacted my ISP he said 1024/256 max i can get, so i ordered this.

but i see pro offering dedicated servers with 1Mbps !! so i assume that should what will i get will be ok