HP Microserver running vmware (freenas+joomla/word press). How much RAM?

[dubcat]

HI

I have never done anything like this so please excuse the ignorance. I was thinking of buying one of these HP Proliant Microservers due to the cashback offer. I was going to stack it up with 4 drives. I was wondering if it can be used with vmware to run freenas and a couple of web servers (all linux). How much ram would I need to do this? The web servers will be a personal blog and a personal photography site so nothing intensive or mission critical. How much ram will I need?

Also wondering what else you guys are running on your micro servers from an app/workload perspective.

Cheers,
Dub

 

[dubcat]

The reason I am going for microserver is that it has a 100 pound cashback offer. My uses for the server will not be particularly intensive.

I am thinking of running

an SSL VPN server on it - just for me, no one else
one web server for my photography
one web server for my blog
FreeNAS (serving to my LAN for backup and for streaming divx/mp3)

If I had the cpu power left i would like to run pfSense on it - but if not then i will put that on another platform.

Assuming that will all run with 5GB ram can you guide me as to the 4gb stick i should buy that will work with the 1gb stick in there already? I always bought matching ram in the past so this is new to me too...

It does definitely take normal 3.5" drives by the way.