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Buy your own hardware and save yourself a ton.
* got prices from pricewatch.com
MB = Tyan S2518UGN $472.75
CPU = 2 x Piii 1.2 $220.00
Ram = 4 x 512MB p133 $128.00
Case = Chenbro RM1U11300 $820
drive = 4 x Hitachi HIDK32DJ-72ME $1340
Total cost $2980.75
Just under $250/mn if you only use it for a year. Gives you around 160GB of raid5 usable webspace once you have all the OS and such loaded, or you can go raid 1+0 and get speed and backup and have around 100GB of space. The case is a bit high, but it has the 4 drives as hot swap, you could get a cheaper case and just have some downtime for drive replacement, you could also go with a cheaper motherboard if you don't want dual CPU's. Likewise if your not going to need the drivespace then downgrade the drives.
Then there is the IDE option
* got prices from pricewatch.com
MB = Tyan Tiger 200T $210
CPU = 2 x Piii 1.2 $220.00
Ram = 3 x 512MB p133 $105.00
Case = Chenbro RM1U3111 $425
drive = 2 x WD1200J 120GB 8MB cache $320
Total Cost $1280
Which works out to just over $100 a month for a 1 year use
Hit me up if you have any more questions.
Tim
