Hi, I was thinking about the budget & it occurred to me that another approach would be to leverage the aggressive pricing of cloud services, e.g. Amazon's AWS - ? That would provide performance, reliability, scalability & the disk space within your cost envelope. Plus useful tools built-in, i.e. backup. Updated my bid for this approach with previous bid details included for reference only. Thank you & feel free to contact me with any questions! - Luca
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[1] Tier-1 Bandwidth straight off of a major fiber loop. No wishy-washy, off-market bandwidth: this stuff is hot & taps right into the BIG pipes of the Internet. 2 TB of transfers monthly included.
[2] Server Technology, both hardware & software, is top rate:
[a] This server uses SSD hard drives, exclusively, in a RAID 10 Array. SSD drives aren't cheap, arrays aren't cheap - but they dramatically improve reliability & performance with faster seek & retrieval times (handy for directories) & overall superior disk input/output speeds.
[b] Gigabit network interfaces for maximum network speed.
[c] 8 Core Intel Processor, with Dual Processors available at additional cost.
[d] ECC Server RAM no shortcuts on RAM performance & not cutting corners on error correction memory - keeps things rock solid.
[e] Ubuntu Linux 13 + WordPress - speaking of rock solid, this is an unbeatable combo of serious hardware + the reliability of the current version of the largest Linux distribution.
[3] World Class Data Cent