shooraijin wrote:...it's so worth it to have your own rack and your own network.
... Provided you can get your wife to agree to a SERVER RACK IN THE DINING ROOM!
Oh, sorry. Did I say that out loud?
I run my own server/network myself too. If you can, get an OS X box, their basically unix, but with easy-to-use gui tools. Baring that, get a linux box (if you know enough about linux). Baring that, don't run a network. The amount of headache a M$ server will create for you (if you don't patch it EVERY DAY) isn't worth it.
Just my $0.02.