Salut,
As many people asked pretty much the same questions, here go some answers:
* The expected traffic is between 170 and 300 Gigabyte a month, according to Jeroen. * The server itself is probably going to be 1U only, but we would probably need an external drive bay. * If 2 people could get unattended 24/7 access, that would be terribly nice. * We don't need many IP addresses, we've gone pretty well with one so far. * A textual "Hosting by" would be ok, like the "Hosted by netgate.de" we have right now. * Local backups are nice, our backup server is in the Netherlands, so sending backups right through Europe is of questionable efficiency. * A firewall and other snake oil isn't required.
(I hope I made it clear which points are MUST and which ones are MAY.)
Our budget for this has also been asked about, but this is a question I can't answer. The idea is that our board decides on the situation after we got specific offers.
Thanks for listening, Tonnerre