Web Server

[zis]

I don't know if I'm posting at the right place. But, I am setting up a site and a server for a newspaper. The site is expected to get 50 000 page views per day. I need your advice for the following points:

1- I need to install linux as an opearting system. any distribution stands out? (I will be using apache php mysql and perl)

2- How much bandwidth do you think i will need to keep the site running (a peak of 50 to 60 000 visitors per day)

Thx

[spufi]

Originally posted by zis
1- I need to install linux as an opearting system. any distribution stands out? (I will be using apache php mysql and perl)

2- How much bandwidth do you think i will need to keep the site running (a peak of 50 to 60 000 visitors per day)

I believe Apache 2 is now considered stable so I would go with the latest non beta version of it. PHP 5 just hit release canidate 1, but it depends on how much you would really use what is in PHP 5 versus being able to get away with using the last version of PHP 4.

About bandwidth, it all depends on how big your pages are. I would use as much externally linked CSS as possible because it will save you a ton on bandwidth if that is the amount of hits you expect to get per day.

[zis]

thx. That's what I was thinking for apache.
As for the size of the pages, I made some quick calculations and every user will be downloading around 30kb..
Thx again