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I'm looking to build a set of home servers to play around with. In doing so they will be on full time, looking to run a very low volume family web site, and probably a file server with SFTP etc on it as a separate device.
My question amounts to, given that configuration, what would make server hardware worth the extra cost as compared to buying desktop hardware and running the same open source server software?
What is it about server hardware that makes it better?
2+1 for pragmatism! This isn't the popular answer, but for most families it's the right one. As long as you have a good backup strategy in place. – John Rudy – 2009-08-18T19:37:19.973
1I stand corrected; it's apparently quite popular now. :) – John Rudy – 2009-08-18T21:09:01.490