$4500 is right on. I've been watching the Dual Core prices and there was just a drop that made me comfortable making the purchase. (Just two months ago they were in the $6k range). Funny to see the OS reporting 8 processors. I needed to upgrade from ES3 to ES4 since they are dropping support and getting a new server minimized my downtime; as it was I was only offline for about 30-45 minutes.
I have a dozen sites on it; three vB forums with about 1,000 users online concurrently, a radio station and unknown number of users on the others. Load so far has been around 1; the older server ran about a 2. Throught the day I put out about 3.5mb/sec.
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