[ILUG-BOM] Looking for recommendation -- Building Highly Scalable Standalone Linux Server

Hi There.

I am looking for some hard core technical documentation and articles which explains how to build a highly scalable standalone linux server for hosting purposes. It will be running a combination of Billing Software, Network Monitoring, Security (some form of encryption), Web Server, Database (mysql and postgres) which could lead to heavy usage.

I know certain queries can be googled but what I am really interested in is people's recommendation with pointers that talk about lessons learned from folks who have built heavy duty servers (w/ storage requirements, raid, ram, processors..etc) for a data center environment.

This information will be extremely valuable to my team.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Virendra