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So with the physical theft behind me (aside from the court/legal stuff) I am now focusing on getting my network where I want it. So this is what I have decided to do.

These three boxes are the following

very bottom server with the 12 hard drive bays will be our NAS. What is a NAS? Network attached storage. Typically used for software storing, backup storage, company data storage and so on.
What she rockin?
dual 5160's with 8GB of ram
What is it running?
We are going with the latest and greatest and utilizing virtualization. This will allow for future cloud networking if I desire as well as clustering and so on. It also allows me to run two servers in one. A nix based OS (debian) and a windows based OS (03 Server)
This will be for the backing up of our customers data, and Angrygamings entire network and data. 24 TB of storage with about 4 GB lost to the raid configuration.
What raid are we going to be using? I was debating raid 5 but with the parity checking required with raid 5 I worry about the speeds. After some testing raid 10 seems the more likely choice for our NAS.
What will the NAS do for customers or should they even care?
With AngryGaming steadily growing, I wanted to provide a backup for the user even if they are free users. This means once the NAS is in place we can do the following.
Premium users - will automatically get 10GB of storage that will hold their backups off the web server. The backups will remain there and will not follow the same rules as the free user
Free Users - will get a backup stored on the remote server for the first two weeks of every month. They will also only be allowed to perform one backup a month. This is to restrict bandwidth hitting the caps

NEXT server
This is the 1u right above the supermicro
Dell 1950 Proedge
Dual quadcore 2.8GHz 12GB of ram
Raid: Still debating and testing
Purpose: VPS/Web -- This box will also become virtualized for the intended purposes of redundancy. It will run two primary VPS on it (perhaps some others for personal use) and be responsible for the web hosting aspect for AGN.

The big black one I had some ideas for it, however I just received it back from Sleek and I need to find out why it wont boot. As it is now it appears to be DOA which kind of sucks since this whole ordeal relating to this server has been nothing but drama.

I truly have alot going on. The new site is done being designed and coded, we are now in the process of coding it into our CMS of choice. We are also setting up pricing and making HostMyClan live to all users instead of it just being for personal friends of mine and their friends etc. (My box was sold out and I wanted to focus on the web stuff first before expanding it). I have only one more 100.00 payment to go and the back-end being built up from the ground will be completely paid for and I may even get some back since I am going ahead and covering the maximum estimate. It really has been an ordeal for us but that is with anyone I guess trying to do something never before done. I believe with steady funding, and with the contractors/staff I have now this will truly be a great year for AngryGaming. Feel free to comment or ask questions and talk to you all soon