IIS server hardware recommendation

hello all,<br>is anyone here has experience hosting server at home using windows 2k server,<br>I am right now hosting my site using single P4 intel and SCSI devices for the server. The site kinda slow. I want to upgrade to dual processors server system. Do you think it gonna make data throughput faster or Not? which those who has lot experience on server stuffs please give me some ideas.<br>thanks

If you are hosting from home I would bet that your upstream bandwidth is more at issue than the hardware. I currently host 4 public sites on a single processor P3-500 and my utilization is rarely above 10%, even under peak loads. I would double check your utilization using Task Manager for quick reference. If your utilization is low, then it's not a hardware issue.<br><br>Of course.. a faster system would be nice <img src="/forum/emoticons/wink.gif" alt=";-)"><p> </p><p><hr size="1" width="50%" align="left" />dotNetBB Forum Developer<br><b><i>Building A Better Community, One Post At A Time</i></b><br><a href="http://www.dotnetbb.com" target="_blank">www.dotnetbb.com</a></p>

yeah my upstream and down stream is 896/896kb but it kindda slow ... don't know because of hardware or IIS problem ... I need some exoertie recommendation