Well, after paying over $400 last month in hosting bills, I've finally decided to take this over myself. The nice people from Speakeasy are coming to install my line this next week.
This machine will need to serve primarily as a web server. It needs to be very reliable. It will be placed in my home with 100+ year old wiring along with four other computers, so it can't need too much power. The combined sites it is hosting (about 15) get about 3-4,000 unique visitors a day, and about 10-15,000 pageviews. It will need to run Linux, not Windows, so all hardware must work with Gentoo Linux. The sites in question involve quite a lot of file downloading.
My budget is right around $1,000, although this could maybe go slightly higher if necessary. I was looking at an Athlon 64 or Opteron system, but I'll also consider Intel if people think that is better.
Thanks for the input!
This machine will need to serve primarily as a web server. It needs to be very reliable. It will be placed in my home with 100+ year old wiring along with four other computers, so it can't need too much power. The combined sites it is hosting (about 15) get about 3-4,000 unique visitors a day, and about 10-15,000 pageviews. It will need to run Linux, not Windows, so all hardware must work with Gentoo Linux. The sites in question involve quite a lot of file downloading.
My budget is right around $1,000, although this could maybe go slightly higher if necessary. I was looking at an Athlon 64 or Opteron system, but I'll also consider Intel if people think that is better.
Thanks for the input!