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uh, anyone else???

yes, antec 1200 as a server case.

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ok im sorry, let me startover.

im looking to build a web server, im learning how to web design and i feel i would profit more hosting my own web pages instead of paying someone else. What im looking to do is run an antec 1200 case, i have the cd/dvd burner in mind, im looking to see what intel motherboards and raid cards you guys sugest, also, if i do plan on running raid, is it better to run it through the card or what. Each hdd i want to be is a tb, y, because to me, more space, the better, lol. Also, since im looking to run the antec 1200, what power supplys do you guys sugest. I will be running windows server 2003. Also, what CPU is the best, and if it offers duals cpus, and i get one high end cpu, do i really need to get another, from my research ive been told that the second cpu can only run the 50%. so... anyone can help???

Dude you need to be patient, its only been a few hours, I have a thread or two here that has not been replied to too in weeks...the general rule here is to bump once ever 24 hrs I believe...

It sounds to me like you are wanting two different things, a web server, and a storage server. I can't fathom why you would want several TB's of space for a web server. I host a ton of clients rather large sites and even with backup 500GB is plenty.

A server is just a computer, just like anything else you would build, so don't get all worried its gonna be hard or anything.

Heres what I recommend, save your cash on your jumbo machine, get a hosting account on the web (few bucks a month). I can't figure out of you mean you want to host clients or you just want something to test on. If you want to host clients, you definitely need to rent a VPS or something, if you just want something to test with and run a personal site, do it on a machine in your house...Heck you don't need a special machine to run that, you can run a web server (apache) off of your desktop, either with something like xammp or one in a VM.

You probobly dont want to run a storage server (with sensative data on it) and an active web server on the same machine for security reasons.

If you just want a machine to be a web server, you can pick up a cheap single core and that will be just fine. Unless you have a ton of concurrent connections really taxing your server that will be suitable...My local web server on my home network is a single core celeron and it hosts some personal stuff just fine.

I asked a long time ago what a good storage server build would be, still have not gotten an answer, read the last page of this thread for my thoughts, for what it is worth:

http://www.overclock.net/servers/353...m-build-6.html

But heres the thing, I don't have experience building a server like that, so I am not going to spout off and tell you to build this crazy machine with these parts I have seen on the web.

Sorry I could not help further....

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Production servers aren't cheap, and you're talking different hardware than desktop machines, from the PSU to everything from remote boot hardware onwards; SAS and more. Such servers still use SCSI 15k drives, too. You also will be looking at cases based on height, not style (like U1/2/3/4) [which aren't meant for cooling like desktop rigs, either. Thus, you don't see much of any fans, as they're designed to put in cooler racks at the datacenter]).

In other words, out of the price range for anyone but colo types and actual web hosts.

If it's a desktop server, they're built not much different from desktops, and in everyway a desktop computer, but more scalable (maybe hot swap racks; on-the-fly fan replacement, etc.).