Should I put Web-Mail-Sql server on separate hardware?

[Laszlo]

Hi,

I just finished my first LAMP installation.
I put all of them on the same pc. Everything works fine.
(pc:: P4 2.4Ghz 80gig Hdd 1gig Ram 533FSB).
My friend has these servers setup on three different pc.
pc1:Apache, PHP;
pc2:Qmail;
pc3:MySQL;

All of his hardwear are AMD Athlon 1.6Ghz 512Mb Ram 266FSB.
He sad with his setup everything is much faster.

-IS IT TRUE???
-HOW CAN I TEST IT??
-SHOULD I PUT MY SYSTEM THREE DIFFERENT HARDWEAR??

What do you guys thing?

I am looking forward to here some opinion.

Thank you Laszlo:confused:

[ph34r]

Consider security and speed vs. performance vs cost. Separating them could increase security, may increase performance, and certainly would increase cost. Is this a production environment that has to be up 99.999999% of the time, or a development setup?

[Laszlo]

Hi,
this is a development/test setup.
I am a webdeveloper.
My company does not exist any more
so now I am trying to go on my own.
I rather do it once and right.
It would be nice if my servers can have a 95%uptime.

Right now there is a sale on AMD Sempron 2400+ with mobo for 69.99$.
Is it a good for mail or sql ??

What is your opinion?:)

[SpookyFox]

If it's for a dev/test environment, I wouldn't worry about getting three different machines to mess around with.

My home router setup has apache2, qmail, mysql, and is routing the internet for my house. I use apache and mysql for snort to log attacks/packets/etc. The machine is only a P3 450 with 64 megs of RAM! It works juuuuust fine.

If you're building a server for your business or something like that, then you'd be better off getting some serious firepower, but if you're just messing around, something alot smaller would work great.

Just a thought.