Major server upgrade; can you tell?

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SilverPoet - Thanks man! I greatly appreciate your compliments!

PKRWUD - Yeah, I'm a techno dude. Always have been. Technology gets me excited (shhh, don't tell my Fiancee! ). Any ways, yes - you can use your one DSL connection for as many computers as you want. There are two ways to accomplish this. You either have to use a DSL router that has a hub built into it or you have to use a stand alone hub, a proxy server, and one of your computers must have two network cards in it. The first way is much easier, but unless you have SDSL (business class DSL) you probably only have a DSL modem, with no hub, the plugs directly into your computers lan card/adapter. You could also purchase your own DSL router and configure it yourself, but that might be difficult for you to do if you don't know what you're doing and have no networking experience. For the later option, you just need to purchase/get a good proxy server program to run on one machine and install a second network card. Then you connect your DSL modem to one card, the second to a hub, all your other computers to that hub also, and then configure the proxy software to allow all the computers connecting your second nics (network cards) IP address to use the internet connection on your first nics IP. This will allow all your other systems to use your first system DSL connection utilizing NAT (Network Address Translation).

mustangman65_79 - Yeah, I'm drooling myself! If I can accomplish my goals for building the new servers and changing things over like I want all the sites will be set-up for LOTS of capability for expansion.

On the making money front, Good luck! It's hard dude. I barely keep the site afloat now from advertising, and I stick a sizeable amount of money out of my own pocket into it each year too. But, I'm looking to diversify into other ways of generating revenue beyond just advertising, so we're looking for a better outlook over the next year. It's taken me seven years to get this site and six years to get FunFord.com where they are now. It's been a long road.

Well, a T1 is quick and runs at 1.55 Mbps (Megabits per second). However, a T3 is much more than twice that speed. A T3 (or OC3) is about 29x the bandwidth of a T1, at ~ 45 Mbps. A T1 will run you in the range of $1000 per month on average generally and a T3 is extremely expensive, as I'm sure you can imagine.