> Right we've got about $17,500 dollars to spend and we need to get some > hardware to act as a webserver to process jobs and be used also as a > repository for the database that is being accessed during processing. a $17500 webserver should be pretty absurdly speedy for what you're likely to ask of it. I'd probably buy something with plenty of RAM (4+GB) and then spend whatever's left on nice, fast disks... --elijah