... Will there be interactive user accounts (telnet/SSH)? Will users be using it as a workstation or is it a server? ... The main difference in today's world between computers is usually not the hardware, or even the OS (Linux is Linux, NT Server and NT Workstation are close family, etc.), it is in what software packages are loaded (Apache, X, etc) and how users access the machine (interactively, at the console, and so forth). ... Keep users off of the servers. ... Restrict physical access to servers. ...