- Jul 26, 2005
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I'm looking at performing the job of setting up all the IT systems when our small business moves to a new office. My bosses want to replace all of the 5 or so main workstations with Macs, and then have a new dedicated server set up in order to host our database and web solutions.
My networking experience is limited, so my question is, basically, what sort of system should I look at acquiring for a server. By this I mean what sort of specs are necessary, considering that we're looking for a system that will last through any medium term expansion of the business, and that potentially we are going to have some quite large databases up and running. We are also wanting to set up a web server, preferably on the same system, and are potentially looking at sharing the same databases between offices in the future. I assume it wouldn't be wise to have the network file/database server as our direct gateway to the internet, but how would I set up an alternative system?
My networking experience is limited, so my question is, basically, what sort of system should I look at acquiring for a server. By this I mean what sort of specs are necessary, considering that we're looking for a system that will last through any medium term expansion of the business, and that potentially we are going to have some quite large databases up and running. We are also wanting to set up a web server, preferably on the same system, and are potentially looking at sharing the same databases between offices in the future. I assume it wouldn't be wise to have the network file/database server as our direct gateway to the internet, but how would I set up an alternative system?