On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:30:11PM +0100, Ashley wrote:

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• 512MB RAM
• 750MHZ - 1GHz - processor not too important
• at least 400-500GB hard disk space

Wow, if that spec is low end (especially HD space), I am curious as to what you define as high end.

I would consider a multiprocessor Sun Enterprise Server with disk space in the TB and several GB of RAM to be high end - at least for a single web server. Even this would struggle with the traffic that most large sites get today - particularly if the site application designers don't understand how web servers work, which seems to be too often the case.