I actually mostly want to use it as a web server. Will it work well enough that way?
For a few clients, yes. Try to make sure that you provide enough swap, and install as little as possible. Then when you're done installing, shut down as many unnecessary services as possible. Your resulting machine should function well enough; I have several built that way.
I suggest two changes in your messages to the list: one, is that it's easier to read your messages if you add your comments *after* previous messages. That way everyone can read the question, then the answer, then the comments... all in order. Having to figure out who said what and when makes it harder to read your posts, and that reduces the chance that someone out there will be able to answer you. (Ask better questions, get better answers.)
The second suggestion is that you "trim" previous posts, by which I mean leaving only the text necessary for context and relevance and deleting the rest. Again, this makes it easier to read your messages. But also, this list goes out to over 4,000 people, and many of them have slow/expensive links to the Internet. So every extra kilobyte of text is multiplied by 4,000 and then made expensive.
These two suggestions are not hard-and-fast rules, but they are considered "good netiquette" since about 20 years ago for newsgroups and mailing lists, places where you are not communicating with a single other person but with many, many others. I think you'll find that they make sense once you get used to them.
Cheers,
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
