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Hello, hope this is the best place to post this, if not please recommend a place

I have been looking at a Pi for some time, and recently I stopped running my game servers (minecraft Killing floor Ts3) so my load is quite small now and I think I could get more for the power usage with a Pi

My current system is a
amd +3400
3x1gb ddr ram
3 ide hdd
(right now I think this computer has more power usage in fans (about 4 fans total) then 1 Pi XD)

and I would need it to do
File server samba (stream movies and anime)(get some usb enclosures for my hdd's)
squid 3 proxy server
ssh server
auto mount usb hdd's
run headless

Would like
apache web server
mysql server
phpbb server
(cant quite remember all the things but a LAMP server with a forum server)

I would like to know if it could handle all of this at one go?
the stuff under "Would like" is for me to horse around with XD so it wont see heavy load

also would it be safe to run a Pi 24/7? its what I am doing with my current setup

Thanks,
Higgins909

It's hard to answer this question. Yes, it can do all of this and a lot more. Yes, it can run 24/7 without any problems.

How well it can do all of these things is another issue and that's a subjective call, so you'd have to figure it out for yourself.

I'd imagine the first bottleneck you'll run into will be USB bandwidth.
Both USB ports (external HDD? USB-WiFi?) and the NIC run off a single USB channel.
Your streaming media files will effectively be going through this single channel twice
(USB-HDD -> samba -> NIC/USB-WiFi)