I've been asked to setup a large, scalible, Internet fileserver setup. In a nut shell, users from around the world will be visiting a website, choosing a download and their location. Then the file will be pushed to them from the approriate server. All the backend code to drive this has been written.
My questions come in at the hardware level. If you were going to setup something like this what hardware factors would be most important to you for the servers? How would you handle the file storage? Would you use a NAS (or multiple NAS) and attach front-end servers to it?
