+1 Great idea! As a recent asker of such a question, it seems unprofessional for this community to just throw its hands up. I agree it's a question like "how long is a piece of string?", but it's a question people in the profession have to answer every day... and the treatment here just blows my mind.

:-) Thanks for the support guys! Much appreciated. I am still trying to get my head around the SF environment, so I thought I'd ask about the downvote.

Thanks for taking the time to answer! The reason I was mis-guided about "standard server sizes" is that the company I used to work for (UTX), and when we used CSC as the IT infrastructure supplier. Whenever we needed a server, they basically had a standard list of servers to choose from. So I was (erroneously) thinking that this might be standard in the industry.

@Downvoter: Why a downvote? I thought this was the place to ask these sort of questions. I'm trying to get the hang of what and how to ask questions on Server Fault... and I can't see any other place to ask.

@Chopper3: I pay for what I get! ;-) Thanks, again, for responding.

@Chopper3: Thanks for taking the time to respond! No offence intended, but your comment here comes across as "harried and annoyed" which, in my opinion, is not conducive to reasoned moderation. Perhaps you should re-think your level of engagement? YMMV.

Thanks, sysadmin1138! 1. It wasn't a macro. 2. As I said to Iain's answer: my implied answer (obviously not clearly!) was that the auditor was trying to catch the OP out.

Thanks, Iain! I suppose I should have been more explicit as to why it reminded me of dogbert: the auditor was trying to catch the OP out (which others had expressed, hence my thinking it was a dupe).

Great answer! Thank-you! I'll see if I can formulate something more confined and answerable based on this... or perhaps several different such questions.