[davide101]

I may just luck out. We are installing a VOIP solution later this year and they are running a dedicated T1 to each of our two locations. They promise 7ms latency from our office to theirs. This would enable us to co-locate all of our business servers with them. We barely come close to utilizing a few servers so I could easily split up images, database, and web server while taking advantage of burstable bandwidth. It would be local, which I like, and we already have replacement parts for the servers in case of a problem.

Bandwidth is not a problem now. But I started measuring total T1 utilization a few weeks ago and the trend is not looking good for the end of the year. Plus, at some point our staff might complain that the Internet is slow...

Thanks for all of your advice, I appreciate it. I didn't know a wink of html three years ago and can now code a sharp CSS website in notepad. I think the next three years I'll have to do the same for server management. Are there any good books to start with? I have virtually no experience in Linux or it's flavors and want to be able to build and manage a secure, healthy web server.