ASP.NET web server and sql database server on a old computer

[Mario]

As a hobist I learned java, but after I saw the efficiency of Visual Studio
and C# I try to create my first web application. From java world I learn how
to improve performance of my developing so I put web server and database
server on a old Celeron with 128MB RAM and Ubuntu server version and IDE was
started on my laptop which also isn't full of power. My question is can I
use that old Celeron for a similar purpose ? What I should install on it and
where to download ?

 

[Kenneth Cochran]

By the sound of it you want to set up a test server for developing ASP.NET
applications. This is fairly simple to do. The biggest consideration is
which version of the .NET framework you plan on developing against. Here's a
list of which framework will run on which operating system:
..NET 1.0 (Not recommended)
Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP
..NET 1.1
Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
..NET 2.0
Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
..NET 3.0
Windows XP, 2003, Vista
..NET 3.5
Windows XP, 2003, 2008, Vista

There's also the Mono project which currently offers a complete .NET 1.1 and
an almost complete .NET2.0 environment.
Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, Sun Solaris, Nintendo Wii,
Apple iPhone.

As far as webserver support for ASP.NET: For Windows your best bet is IIS.
For Linux, I know Apache has experimental support.

Hope this helps.

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Kenneth,

As it is about using Visual Studio (as you wrote), then the list is a little
bit shorter then the one from Kenneth.

In fact it is for Visual Studio 2002/2003 limited to the Profesional
versions of 2000, XP, Vista and the Servers > 2000.

For Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 you can in theoratical add the home versions
to this list, beause on that there is a test server integrated (the
functions of the old Casini, which is far the same as the W98 personal
server). You can try to add on the older systems of course the Casini Server
yourself.

Running a IIS webserver (IIS = Internet Information Server) can official
only on Professional Workstations or Servers starting at W'2000

This AFAI remember me.

Cor

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Kenneth,

Sorry this message was ment to Mario.

Cor

 

[Mario]

Kenneth,

As it is about using Visual Studio (as you wrote), then the list is a
little bit shorter then the one from Kenneth.

In fact it is for Visual Studio 2002/2003 limited to the Profesional
versions of 2000, XP, Vista and the Servers > 2000.

For Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 you can in theoratical add the home
versions to this list, beause on that there is a test server integrated
(the functions of the old Casini, which is far the same as the W98
personal server). You can try to add on the older systems of course the
Casini Server yourself.

Running a IIS webserver (IIS = Internet Information Server) can official
only on Professional Workstations or Servers starting at W'2000

Could W'2000 will work on 128MB RAM (Celeron)? Could .NET 3.5 will work on
W'2000 and IIS webserver?

 

[Kenneth Cochran]

No. .NET 3.5 requires XP or newer. XP will run on 128MB (barely) but add the
..NET runtime and you'll run into performance problems. You may be able to
get some extra headroom by being aggressive with disabling unnecessary
services. Check out http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm for a
list of possible candidates for the chopping block.