Thanks for the response Don. I guess the good old system admin in me (my previous jobs) was trying to think of every possible problem that could happen down the road and plan for it - and at the time i was a systems guy not the network guy, so i didn't deal with problems like this. But then again, that isn't my job any more so i shouldn't worry about it too much. i guess i'll just set it up and hope that no problems arise, i'm guessing they won't but if they do i'll cross that bridge when we get there.
although the hosting plan you mentioned sounds appealing, we are going to need to have complete control of the server for some of the other things i want to run on it... so that solution won't work this time, though i'll keep it in mind for future projects.
