Home office server

[quotidian]

My dads asked me to sort him out with a cheap server for the office. At the minute he only really needs some sort of NAS with the ability to access it remotely but I think it would be good if there was the possibility of upgrading it later on so his website could be run off it or the email server etc.

Doesn't matter if its has to be linux based as I've got a bit of experience with linux on desktops so I'm sure I could manage it for the server.

Any ideas on whats the sort of minimum amount you'd be looking at for a very basic server to start off with?

Thanks

 

[quotidian]

Not a 100% sure but I think its mainly a load of documents, pdfs, autocad files, stuff like that. He'll probably also want to keep a copy of the databases he uses for getting prices from on it as well.