Wokay lemme chip in with what I think.
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The thing is i thought may be its a good idea to have something that is alwase online and say host my web and mail
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Incase you are thinking of setting it up for educational purposes or for that matter as a learning process then it would be wiser to make use of some old machine gathering dust than to spend 20-25k.But I've yet to find out what all you'll require for setting it up.I'm sure there must be some alternatives like when I was searching for a full fledged firewall I stumbled across
www.smoothwall.org a freeware linux alternative with periodical support.For sometime I had it setup with a old machine lying around,,untill my dad breached my room & stole it,reason:accounting purposes(phew),but thats another story.
If its for personal professional use then buying a domain/paid & private email accounts host works out quite cheaper than hosting it 24/7 at the expense of electricity bill,hassles involved with managing,securing blah blah.Trust me the cost & the pain involved managing it doesnt work out too well.Just my two cents.
Incase you hang on to something something cheaper to the above do let me know.It would certainly be a help for me.