web server??

[stesouthby]

hi guys how you all doing right my question is this my business wants to host its own website and e-mail i was wondering if you guys could give me a few tips like what you need best specs for a server which OS is better windows or linux I have been looking around and can't really find the infomation i need i think personnaly its a bad idea the servers got to be able to have around 40-50 e-mail addresses and to run around 6 websites what do you reckon? also would i need to set up a dns as well cheers for all your help in advance

[steronius]

!!! outsource to google !!! google apps will allow email @yourdomain.com

[Smith6612]

Linux is pretty much the standard for web hosting. For E-mailing, you can use Google Apps, though if you are trying to host something from home (Which is not suggested) instead of from a Datacenter, you may have to wind up doing that as pretty much all e-mail providers block e-mail sent from residential IP addresses. Doesn't matter how many e-mail addresses you have, just as long as you can keep track of all of them and put them to use