Currently, our company has about 15 employees working in a central office. We have a single file server for sharing various documents, this server is a Dell Poweredge.
We have 2 websites which are currently being served by GoDaddy, but we would like to host the servers ourselves. We also have 10 retail locations around the company that need to be able to connect to our websites continuously throughout the day.
So, we need to purchase one server that will be powerful enough to host our two websites and run a powerful firewall on it. We need another server to be used for file sharing around the office, which may be the currently used one.
My question is, what type of server should I buy and what else is needed to successfully roll out this procedure? What type of firewall needs to be purchased to protect such a server. Should I get a simple, cheap Dell PowerEdge or would something more powerful be needed. What type of firewall is needed? What backup mechanisms would be beneficial to have in place and what hardware would they require? What other components will be needed as part of this purchase and subsequent roll out?
I realize that this is a broad question, but any advice would be helpful.
Thanks,
Paul
