Hi all. I have just started using Moodle and have developed courses with 1.6 and 1.7 on my laptop running Windows 98 - I used the xampp installation which automatically installed PHP and MySQL.
The time has come for me to present these courses to our school students and begin presenting moodle to our teachers. We are looking to buy a computer to use as a server and install moodle. We have an IP address assigned, but are unsure what is the best way to proceed. We have about 460 students, but would predict that initially we'll have no more then 50 students accessing the site at any time.
Would anyone have any advice on what 'size' server I should look for? Would XP, apache and the xampp installation be sufficent to cater for our students. Should I look to use some other software? We hope to use the computer as a mail server as well. Any advice welcome.
Thanks.
Edward