[PLUG] "server" quality components

[Carla Schroder]

yo pluggers,

I rarely have the luxury of a healthy budget for buying or building new boxes; 
like most of us, I've made a career out of coaxing a little more life out of 
old Frankenhardware. Well, I'm starting a new project where there is actually 
enough budget to purchase some decent hardware. I am giddy with excitement. 
There will be two standalone servers: one IMAP and one Apache web server. The 
mailserver will have about 300 accounts. Not sure yet how much traffic is 
expected for the Web server, or if it is going to be burdened with horrid 
scripts or what. These are not quite mission-critical, maybe one step below 
mission-critical.

Would it make sense to go for server-quality mainboards, NICs, power supplies, 
and all those good things? We already decided on tower cases, for easy 
maintenance and future expansion, so box real estate is not a problem. What 
do you get in a "server" mobo or NIC anyway that you don't get in the cheep 
stuff?

thanks!

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Carla Schroder
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