Something like this? Why is there so much dell love in these forums?
Because support contracts are a great thing to have when your server breaks.
I have One thousand dollars, and I wish to build an apache webserver that can handle 4TB of monthly internet traffic. The server will handle several users. The users will be free to do much of anything, including using PHP forums, wiki and photo gallery stuff, icecast media streaming, ruby on rails apps, and file serving.
Hmm...are you setting up a hosting service? Also, you got the $1k and 4TB figures from someone/where. Knowing how those specific numbers were obtained could be useful, like how flexible the $1k is and how the 4TB was estimated (is this a replacement for an existing server?).