what else?

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What else do I need besides the following to host a server?
a dedicated computer: which has 500 speed processor with 128 megs of ram (which I know is low and I am going to update it soon as I get the money) 13gig hard drive
with:
G6 FTP Server v2.0 and zone alarm
anyone else know what I need?

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Is this a webserver?
What Operating System are you going to have on it?

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yes
windows 2000

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You should have at least 256M of RAM, 512 would be better. Make sure that you patch everything to avoid the plagues out there.

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what you mean by patch everything and more ram is coming just need more money..which is coming and i have just upgraded it to 256 but slowly i will update it even more so...

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also i have added simple server made by analogx

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By patching, I mean updating your site with security patches and also 2000 service packs. Try here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/professional/default.asp

Mark Irving
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that is a constant hassle with any microsoft served site, simply the amount of upkeep on the security side of things

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now instead of using simple server apache

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