Hi there LQ peeps,

Can you please help me with this one. I don't know if this thing is right so please help me. All services will be running on a single machine.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...VER-DESIGN.jpg

Thank you.

P.S
Its LIGHTTPD!

I guess I'd want a little more detail about what you're trying to accomplish. The short answer is that yes, all those services could be run on a single machine. However, I'm a touch confused about why you would want to run both Apache and Lighttpd on the same box. Seems a bit redundant to me. I'm also a touch confused about the overall goal of the box.

...in addition to what he said already: use your home machine, borrow spare some disk space on grannys machine, be creative otherwise but in my humble opinion your backup server should not equal your web server. Also caching proxy works best if it has as much RAM as it needs, there's web servers that are smaller and faster than Apache and I hope you made certain lighttpd works with the application(s) you will run. So it would be interesting to see for what specific reasons or based on what projected use you have chosen those components.

Thanks for the inputs guys. Well, right now I'm designing it for production purpose. We will be running our first e-commerce site very soon. I choose LIGHTTPD over APACHE to manage our e-commerce(PHP) site for better performance since its LIGHT. Then APACHE will be the one to handles our static files (HTML,FLASH Files, and some scripts)

In addition.. can you please share me more tips, what is the best backup tool as a replacement to AMANDA..? I'm also confused that AMANDA is too advanced to backup those web-files.

Thanks.

Are you aware that running an e-commerce site really should change a lot of your thinking? In particular, security moves from being your top 10 worries to being your top 10,000,0000 worries. If you haven't already, you might want to start researching e-commerce regulations, and this is a decent place to start (provided you're in the US). If you're not in the US, you'll need to search your countries regulations.

Of extreme concern should be your choice to use PHP to code your site. Unless you've done your homework on PHP security, you can write some horribly insecure apps, and that could get you into a megaton of legal trouble.

I've always just used rsync, but I'm running a server for personal use, not e-commerce.

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