Hi, Where I work we have one server. We bought another one which will be set up shortly. I was thinking of keeping the old server so that there will be 2 working servers. However, not all seems to think that keeping the old server is a good idea. About 13 users use a medical software called Altapoint (needs 1GB of RAM on each pc for efficient running). 3 users use Peachtree, Payroll, Sunplus (accounting s/w) and Retail Plus (cash register/ inventory s/w). And a few other applications such as Office 2003, anti-virus protections, and the norm. There are currently 23 computers on the network. Currently, the one that's running is extremely slow. So I was thinking of using the new one as the application/ database server only. Then do a clean installation of the old one and use that as the printer and file server- as well as later on, a web server so we can host our own website alone. What do you think? Any advice? Appreciated.

I think you're on the right track. The new server should handle all the heavy-duty applications and you should reuse the old server to handle simple day-to-day stuff. Think of it this way. The more stuff you can offload off of the new server, the more system resources it can dedicate to the database and other app's you have to run.

Thanks Curt R, I'm still young in the I.T. field- so I just wanted others opinion to see if I'm off track.