CPU (s) (as much as you can afford)
RAM (as much as you can afford)
Disk i/o, RAID if you're gonna run SQL
the faster the disk(s) the better off you will be.
Production SQL clusters running on quad Xeon 2GHz ea w/1GB RAM and 10K rpm drives (RAID 5 for the data) 8 SCSI drive array.
Production Web Servers, CPU not so important, but RAM and fast disk i/o more important.
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