How fast PC would I need to run following setup.

[Jarno Niemela <jargon@iki.fi>]

Hello.

I'm setting up an minivend based web shop, and I'd like get your experiences
what would be fast enough for following shop.

-3000-5000 items
-Each item having 5 fields in the products.asc
-Using the minivend internal database
-Running under Redhat 6.0 and Apache 1.39

I was planning on something like

-Celeron 500mhz (or would PII be better?)
-128MB memory
-13GB ATA4 hard drive (DMA/66)

We are hoping for something like 400 hits per day, and 5-25 customers at
the same time.

The products database is updated once a night (the shop can be offline for
that time..)

Also what would be the best tips for optimizing a shop like this.

-mySQL database?
-Static pages?
-Cached seraches?

PS. Where i should place the minivend start command, so that the minivend
would automatically
start on Linux bootup, without any users logging in...

Jarno.