Hosting - what's needed to handle 650K queries?

I am working with a news site that currently uses static pages. I'm looking into the option of building a db driven system and new host option as we are up to about 10K articles. What do I need in a server to handle this amount of traffic. Site is currently getting about 600,000 page views and growing quite rapidly. The server I am looking at is athlon 1gig 512MB Win2K (portions of the site are ASP scripted). Will this server handle the traffic of approx 650,000 queries monthly. (Traffic is heaviest M-F) I would like to develop the content management system in PHP. MySQL has more than enough functionality to insert and pull data for what we're doing. We also have a MSSQL database. Which would be a better solution. I am guessing that MySQL would be as 99% of queries would be simple select statements and MySQL handles this well. Thanks much, olinux PS: Hosting providers - feel free to send me (dedicated) hosting offers off-list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/