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Title: Sl-5500 As A Web Server?
Post by: daniel3000 on September 19, 2005, 05:08:43 am

Hello

I'd like to evaluate if I can replace my current web server (a 566MHz Celerom 256MB HP Mini-PC) by a Zaurus SL-5500 to save even more power.

In order to do that, I'd need the following (please advice if it exists / can be done):

1. A step-by-step instruction how to install and configure apache on the zaurus
(does it support SSI-processing?)

2. How about performance? I'm on a DSL line with at most 192kbps upstream, so the performance of network stuff is not very important. But processing of requests, maybe 10 uploads at a time... does this make problems?

3. Reliability: What are the main problems with SL-5500s? Now, with the Mini-PC, I fear mostly that the hard drive may fail some day. It runs now for half a year very nicely, but once the har drive fails, I'll have much to do restoring the entire stuff. Do you see problems running a SL-5500 for some years without a break?

4. Does the SL-5500 have an SD card slot as well, so I can insert a CF Ethernet card for network connection and as SD card to hold all my homepage data?
Otherwise storage space may be an issue, as the CF slot is occupied by a network card. Or is there another way to attach abt. 1 GB of storage to a 5500?

Any other comments?

Thanks a lot

daniel

Title: Sl-5500 As A Web Server?
Post by: technojunkie on September 21, 2005, 12:13:32 pm

The 5500 is well suited to a low traffic server. the problem you will run into is it takes a bit of time to access data from the SD card.

I run apache and MySQL on my 5500 but that is for a more personalised approach to my tool. As I can put my Z on the charger with its wifi card, and browse my pages from my PC's browser. I am currently trying to access the DTM data from the web pages so I can access my PIM from my fullscreen desktop.

If you're looking for a low power web server with solid state storage, you my want to look into a EPIA m5000 with SD=>IDE converters. That should sip power to the tune of <60watts.