Hey Evan. Is this for the webserver piece, the appserver, the database server, or some combination?

That will impact many of my answers. But a few general notes in-line that will apply in any case....

>Hi folks. We are going to buy a webserver to run our soon to be released ASP.NET with VFP COM web app. There will be 71 users who input a small amount of data sporadically throughout the day and run 1-2 reports (about 5 seconds long) throughout the day.
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>I temporarily have a desktop P4 800MHz PC with 512megs of RAM that I am using to test the app on and it performs well enough. Just mentioning this to give some sort of baseline.
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>I think I will buy a Dell webserver because they are popular, cheap and the support appears to be good. Could I get some recommendations on what I should buy? This is what I am thinking. I'll embed the questions below. Note: I have never purchased a webserver or run one in production before.
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>SERVER BRAND: DELL
>- any problems with Dell?

None. I love Dells for work and home.

>- are the extended support packages worth the cost?

Yes. Dell support is really fantastic, though luckily in the past few years I have only needed to be visited by a tech twice. Both times, he showed up by 10 AM in the morning the day after I called, and was knowledgeable and helpful. Much to my shock!

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>- Is PCAnywhere fine for remote console access?
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I find PC Anywhere ok but slow. There are other options if you expect to do a lot of remote support...


>- are tape drives and tapes still the best way to go?
I've switched to CDs instead of tapes. I never had much trouble with tape backups. But restores from tape seemed to be a headache 50% of the time.