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Ok, I got some stats: 1) OS = Win2K :( 2) DB = SQL 2K 3) size of DB = 10-100MB 4)Web server = Win2K (since we've become married to asp) 5)DB guy seems to know what he is doing 6) traffic volume - 15k uniques/day, max 10k/hour also, we have 3 people in office who will be using the DB literally...

It would be free, I'd grab P4 and someone else in office would use the Duron. I feel my Duron would definately be faster it had DDR, but it only has 100MHz SDR (A7V not A7V133). Maybe i should try running benchmarks. Can anyone recommend reasonably not time-consuming/complicated suit of tests...

My company is getting both a webserver and a database server at rackspace.com. My feeling is that database stuff is more CPU intensive than web serving. is that basically correct (yes, I realize that it depends on site activity, etc., but in general I'm wondering where power is more crucial)...

My company is currently hosted by Verio. We hate it. I'm trying to find some good hosting solutions available in the US. Also, any experience people have with building their own servers and getting it on a backbone would be very helpful. I don't feel like getting ripped off by big companies when...