Help building dedicated server for image hosting site

I am building a dedicated server. It will be used for my image hosting website which is fairly small now, but is steadily increasing. It runs entirely on cold fusion and will be running windows 2000 server, cold fusion 5, SQL Database and a few other applications. I have about 20 members now but adding a few each day. When a user is uploading their images by the browser based upload it slows to a stall on shared hosting, so that is why I am moving to dedicated.

I will also use this dedicated server for a few non-related image galleries that I will be submitting. This will eat up the bandwidth fast, but shouldn't put much strain on the comp, right?

Okay so I am building it. It will be in a mid-tower and will be hosted via colocation(deal semi-worked out) for $100 a month including 50gigs bandwidth.

Can you help me with what do you think I need. I do not wish to spend more than about $1000US.

I was thinking a dual 1800+ system with 1 gig ddr and 2 60gigs ide(one backs up the other). No sound/video needed. But maybe I should go with 2 36gig u160 drives and use a 80gig ide to back that up.

Will I really notice a difference running dual 1800's. Maybe I should just get one 2400+ and use the extra for something else.

Do you think I really need scsi for this type of site or would ide work just fine?

Any help is appreciated.

 

 

 

 

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