I Want To Turn My B&W G3 Into A Server To Host A Small Website, But How?

Hi, I just got a B&W Power Mac G3, and I would like to turn it into a small server to host a small music website. I dont expect alot of traffic. So, I would imagine it could handle this. However, I don't know what I should do to get the G3 up and running the site? I'm doing this with very little money most of it being spent on the Power Mac. So, I need software that is cheap yet reliable. Friends have suggested a few apps but I want to know what you all suggest.
Server Wishlist:
1. Cheap or Free OS
2. Lightweight on CPU
3. GUI or very little command Line usage.
4. Friendly to PC
5. EASY Setup and Install
I asked this question earlier and it was "locked" with no explanation. So here I go again sorry if I posted incorrectly the first time.

The G3 should be more than sufficient for light web usage.
If at all possible, I'd want to use OS X. While it doesn't necessarily meet your first two criteria, it beats any other options in the rest of your requirements.
If that's not possible, you could try Darwin (http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/). The latest binary available (8.0) tracks OS X 10.4 and should install on a B&W. Download the binary, use Disk Utilities to make it a disk image and burn it to a CD. You should be able to boot the machine from that CD.
From there, I would install Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/osx.html), from which you can control the Apache web server that comes installed with Darwin. Webmin is also useful in controlling MySQL or Postgres (not installed) or BIND or Postfix (both installed). Webmin, like it sounds, starts up a secure, SSL web server (separate from Apache) and provides a set of CGI-driven web pages that allow you to control a variety of aspects of a UNIX machine without resorting to the command line. You will need a certain number of command line skills to install Webmin in the first place.
If you want to use the latest/greatest Apache or one of the open source databases, you should get DarwinPorts (http://www.darwinports.com/), which is similar to Webmin in the skills needed for installation. DarwinPorts provides you with a gateway to (relatively) easily download open source applications and install them. A similar environment, Fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/), is also available.
If that all seems too complex, then your course of last resort -- to meet all your requirements -- would be to install Mac OS 8.1 (the last freely distributed classic OS) and download MacHTTP (http://www.machttp.org/). There are still plenty of sites served by MacHTTP and it was the first web server software I ever used, back in 1995 when I put my first site onto the net. Chuck Shotton is no longer actively developing MacHTTP, but he continues to maintain it. It's donationware -- even with your limited budget, send him a few bucks.
By comparison to OS X, OS 8.1 is extraordinarily light. Darwin too is light.
An alternative to using Classic 8.1 would be to spend about $25 and get a 9.2 installer disk on eBay. But then, for about $10 more, you could buy OS X 10.3 on eBay as well.
Which takes us back to my first point: I'd spend the $35 and run OS X if I could.
Best of luck.
\dmc
B&W G3, 7500/7600 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
7500/7600

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