Niiiice. I would love to run this machine on Linux, but I'm having enough problems right now, so it probably wouldn't be in my best interest to do an OS wipe / install at the moment. In addition to the learning curve of running on a new OS.

Yeah, mine runs local also which is part of my problem. I would much rather have a separate box for mySQL especially. The script on my site eats up a lot of resources so it lags a lot. When the bots come they really hurt the speed.