Take the 2-minute tour ×   I'm 'the tech guy' and as such will
usually get questions that are not really in my area of
expertise :)  Today's latest question is regarding moving a mail
server to a new provider. Now shockingly I've realised how
expensive this would be as it needs to be exchange. While I am
putting together a list of providors I'm also looking into the
cost of just buying a new server. The reason we are moving away
from our current solution (Hosted ourseves) is due to capacity.
So can anyone reccomend what type of specifications would be
best suited to running a mail server? Most probably it will be
used as a file server as well. Therefore...  a) Need lots of
space b) Lots of ram  Is that it?  share|improve this question
How many users and how much disk is currently used? –  tomjedrz
Jan 24 '10 at 18:59 Yes, define 'lots'! –  hmallett Jan 24 '10
at 19:20  6 Answers 6  up vote 2 down vote accepted  Technet is
usually a good place to start with this sort of specing
exercise. Assuming that you are