need some help with a web server

[affinity07]

I am currently using Startlogic for my hosting and they are just terrible

anyways I have bellsouth DSL and I own a computer company so building a computer is fine, I have always been interested in Linux but haven't made the leap yet. I currently have 10 websites and 10 more coming can you give me a brief description of what I need in general to get started. is the DSL going to work? and how my servers am I going to need. thanks in advanced.

[coopstah13]

depends what your upload speed is on your DSL and your expected amount of traffic, if you expect a lot of traffic you need a high upload

[affinity07]

What is the perfect partition for a web server I have a 500G hard drive also I am having trouble setting up raid 1.

thanks

[coopstah13]

thats difficult to say, what kind of website are you going to have, is it going to have lots of large files for downloading? you don't need much space for a web site, it just depends on the amount of content you are going to be putting on it. As far as the raid 1 goes, i don't know much about software raid but i do know that in a hardware raid you will need 2 physical disks to complete such a configuration, maybe in software raid it is otherwise, but i would highly doubt that you can have any raid configuration with a single disk, someone can correct me if i'm wrong

[affinity07]

Im going to be hosting between 10- 20 sites some shopping carts some info sites

[Server Seeker]

What is the perfect partition for a web server I have a 500G hard drive also I am having trouble setting up raid 1.

thanks

How do you plan on setting up that Raid1? I am on the same page as coopstah13. I don't know much about software raid, but the term raid is redundant array of independent discs. I am not sure how you set up one disc with raid. As for the web server partition I would say 50G would be sufficent, but if you want to be sure, or making room for expanding I go with a little more like 100.

[x1a4]

What is the perfect partition for a web server I have a 500G

There is no "perfect" partition setup. It all depends on what you will be doing, now and in the future. However, a decent setup would be something along these lines:

/ 1024MB
/boot 128MB
/var 1024MB
/tmp 1024MB
/usr 100GB
/home the rest less swap
swap RAM x 1.5