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Yes, they make excellent servers.
Especially database servers.
Run a 64-bit OS like Ubuntu for AMD64 and load it up with ram (going 64bit allows you to use more ram among other things) and use the AMD64 64-bit optimized code for MySQL and you'll be screamin' along.
MySQL is always happy to have more ram.
However, whatever you do, stay away from *BSD + MySQL unless you want to take a performance hit. They had some serious threading and/or kernel issues that effected MySQL performance last time we benchmarked.
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