I have a question. I have been looking into using my older computer as a webserver (with php, cgi, MySQL and SSH,) for sometime now. I have gotten enough info and I feel I am ready to finally give it a try.

Now my question is this. I have an upload speed of 361 kilobits(which is only 45 kilobytes,) and I was wondering how many people would be able to access my website on my apache server. Now that is vague so I am going to give the url to my current website so you will get an idea of how much I will actually have on my pache server. This is not advertising since I will be moving that website soon and the url will no longer work.

http://webwolf70.sebszhost.com


Now after you visit my current website you will see I use a good deal of animated gifs, jpegs, javascript, java, php, etc. I will also have PHPBB, a PHP guestbook, PHP(or CGI) free for all links and possibly a chat room(though at this point I doubt it,) on my server. So with that said how many people do you think I could have accessing my website at the same time on my apache server before it excedes the upload speeds and gets slow?

Thanks

Edit: One thing I forgot to add is that I will be using a D-Link router and sharing this connection with my newer computer.

Webwolf

speaking of experience from a connection just a tad wider, id say 2 or 3 can surft at the same time from the same ISP painlessly.. When you add the factor that most people in the world dont use the same ISP, or even the same country, the number drops down to 1, maybe 2.. Sue you can handle ~5 so that they still work, but its almost modem-grade painful for them..

Aanyways, those are just my estimations, it all varies very much on about everything.. d:

Well I decided on a couple of things. I found a place that hosts PHPBB forums for free without a lot of advertisments. So that will cut down on things. If I decide on a chatroom I will do the same thing, find a place that will host it. I am also going to have my flash section set up the same way. This should help a bit. I don't know, I will have to try it and see.


Webwolf