jonnyk - Not yet really. I've just built the one new system so far, the other three I described will come throughout the next 6 to 12 months most likely.
JL1314 - I do not totally run everything from my house. Although I do have a home office where the Win2K server lives (now on the new box), which runs through a 1.1 Mb business SDSL circuit, the main server is co-located at a hosting company. That server is a Cobalt RaQ Linux box and sits behind the hosting company's multiple OC3 / 1 Gb network backbone. The main server hosts most of the applications and pages for the sites, as well as the main Email system and media files. All the sites images, and the videos and photos, are served from there because I have virtually unlimited bandwidth behind that box.
Eventually, when all the new boxes are built, I will dump that box, the hosting company
, and also the SDSL circuit I have and convert over to two T1 lines dropped directly into my home office. At that point I actually will be running everything locally.
But, beyond the one server I have sitting her next to me, I also have my own personal system that I do all my work (and play!) on. My system is an AMD Athlon 1 Ghz Thunderbird box with 384 Megs of PC133 RAM. It has an ATA100 40 Gb HD, an ATA100 100 Gb HD, a DVD-ROM, CD-RW, 250 Mb ZIP, GeForce2 Ultra card, a TV Tuner / Video Capture card, a digital Creative sound card with 3D audio, Firewire ports for digital video editing, a hi-end flat bed scanner, a and LexMark Z-95 1200 Dpi color printer. I use a 21" trinitron monitor and have a Boston Acoustics surround sound multimedia theater speaker system hooked to it.
Besides that, I also have my laptop sitting next to me on the desk that is a PIII-600 with 200 Mb of RAM. Then I have another system in my office on the other side of the room that is an older Pentium II-466 w/128 Mb of SDRAM on a 19" monitor that my Fiancee uses. Then we have an older Pentium 200 Mhz system with 48 Mb of RAM that is in my soon to be step-daugher's room.
All of which is connected on a LAN at 100 Mbits and jacked into the SDSL router & Firewall, which gives every system broadband Internet access.
Yeah, I guess I'm pretty wired these days... But, you have to understand this is what I do for a living (my regular career) and for my own business (Mustang Works).
