I always keep an eye on the Arstechnica.com hardware guides. If I'm ever building a server I'll probably just get whatever they put in their hotrod minus the fast video card and double the ram. Or just keep the video card and play HL2 while I serve pages :)
Its amazing what you can put together for <$1000 these days. I'm sure I'll be saying that every year hence forth, but it never ceases to amaze me.
I did that last month for a dev server. Read their budget guide and bought most of the components. Spent about $500 and got a nice 4GB dual core box built.
Its amazing what you can put together for <$1000 these days. I'm sure I'll be saying that every year hence forth, but it never ceases to amaze me.