Choosing the right version for low-cost server

After a recent bump on my Internet speed, my ISP changed and my old ISP is providing only domain and email hosting (with no change in price). Thus I am entertaining building a simple server to handle these chores in-house. This is mainly for home use, with some small in-home business where we'd want to have web page and email, but limited streaming, etc. As I am trying to do this 'on the cheap' I'm looking at all options from installing up to 10.5.x on my old G4-upgraded B&W to buying a Mac Mini Server with 10.6. I would like to have the ability to spam filter all email coming into the domain before it gets to the users (family). Thoughts on the most economical solution? How far up the version list must I go to get better reliability? Initially we'll only need 6 users for now.
Thanks in advance

digitalblade wrote:Also what Graphical Enviroment will wou recomend me for 1GB Ram machine. Ofc it runs well on LXDE and I run it ot Gnome 3. That is probably the heviest that I could use and not wait for things to happen too long. But when I try XFCE on Virtual machines it does not seems that lighter then the Gnome 3. The only thing that I require is that I need Snapping windows manigment. So I can have 2 windows snaped left and right titled together on the same screen. If you tell me I can configure LXDE to do that I could probably go for it. But since Gnome 3 supports it on the fly I don't mind the excessive use of Ram. This machine is Work/Office /code related.
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