Yeah its of to a good start apart from those damn myspace mp3 uploaders but I've got a cgi script to stop embedding of videos and music onto other sites made just need to get that integrated.

About the slowness, I really don't know what that is. Its more of a first connection slowness when it resolves to the site?

Yeah I'm going to use RAID, trouble is since I'm building the system myself can you suggest suitable hardware to handle a site like this. Looking to have about 4 hard drives with about 300GB space.

Thanks for the help.