I am thinking of building a home based web server built on Ubuntu and am curious as to if the following processor will be able to handle Ubuntu server.
Intel Dual-core Celeron 1037U (1.8GHz) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128679)
I am also going to have:
4 GB of DDR3 RAM and 1TB HDD 7200 RPM
What do you guys think? I want to set up a LAMP environment, I feel like this will help me learn Linux and be able to host my own personal web server.
Thank you!
That should work to get a LAMP stack up and running, I've added a couple free alternatives that might help you get your feet wet.
AWS has a free tier, you get a micro instance on ec2, a small on RDS and a loadbalancer, good for toying around.
Also, depending on the specs of your current system could play around with Linux using Virtualbox or Vmware Player.
Another good tool for users with a Windows background that would like to start down a more Unixy path is Cygwin, hich will get you a bash shell and access to some GNU packages
