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Start up a small web hosting company

Dear All,

I'm new to web hosting business. I intended to buy the following to
start my new web hosting co.:(serving around 10 clients at startup and
may increase by 10 or more each month)

1 - 2 Main Servers(web, ftp, email, primart DNS, etc.)
Pentium Pro 200
64M x 4 168-pin SDRam (256M)
UltraDMA33 6.8G Harddisk (or Utlra SCSI? which one better?)
Asus TX97-XE ATX motherboard
OS: one Linux(or FreeBSD), one NT

3com expandable OfficeConnect Hub (8-port) (so we could just buy more
when we expand)

Intel 10/100 Ethernet PnP Cards (or 3com cards better?)

Cisco 2509 Access Server (8 asyn port for dial-up customer, does it
support 56K?)

486-Dx 33 (secondary DNS)

I hope we could buy all these with US$4000.

I appreciate any comment.(esp. on the network product, I'm totally new
to this)

and if you have these old things for sell. Drop me a line.

Thank you

Luca

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jasonchan061397

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So which Ultra wide SCSI motherboard and network card would work fine for linux/freeBSD?

Also, would all network hub the same? do all support 100M Bps?

I've get a old 486 in hand. So no need to waste money. :}

I'd connect to the internt with leased line.

I'm currently a reseller and now I want to be independent. Are you also a web host co? any experience to share?