Servers

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 11:05 +0100, Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wednesday 30 August 2006 10:24, Gérard BIGOT wrote:
> > You could get even less expensive servers. My internal web server
> > serves 500 people and runs on a Pentium III, 800MHz. And nobody knows.
> Thanks for the replies. If I was to split the servers in two, I would choose 
> to run the thin clients from one server and the files and internal web server 
> from another.
> 
> If I was to do this and taking Dennis' advice in using edubuntu, what machines 
> could I use to service a thin client network please? I presume that the 
> workstations are the machines that need to be the work horses!?
> 
> Many thanks.
> -- 
> Rich
> http://www.cregy.co.uk
> Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
> Romans 12 v 1
> 

Far from it, the workstations are thin clients, they need an absolute
minimum of processing power and RAM, they don't even need hard drives or
cd drives (if they can net boot or some other method). The server
however, requires a lot of power, as a guide, the thin client server
requires 128MB of RAM for each client it will have, that's if you're
running gnome, if using xfce then you could get away with a bit less. So
on a 512MB server you're looking at serving about 3 clients well.