Mac Pro as a Web Server and Workstation

I'm thinking about getting a better computer, and plan on launching an intensive web app as well as some other web sites. The original plan was to get an xserve or two, and as the need arises add xsan to the setup.
I see that the mac pro is fairly powerful and would make a great server, I could start with a mac pro, then add an xserve and xsan to the setup down the line. What I'd like to know is how it would hold up as a server, while I was using it for work at the same time.. could it handle both and how would it perform?
*To give an idea of the type of setup:*
8core 3.2Ghz
ram as needed min 4gb up to 32gb
separate hard disks for work stuff and served files.
two monitors
*While running:*
photoshop
illustrator
dreamweaver
fireworks
flash
word
flex
3 parallels virtual machines(2 windows 1 linux)
firefox with 200+tabs
4/5 other browsers running.
ftp/mail/calendar and all those other peripheral apps
So to sum up, would using all those apps affect serving a couple websites much, and is there a demo/video/specs of a mac pro(preferably as tricked out as possible) functioning as a server and/or running high end apps doing things like compiling and applying advanced photoshop filters to large files so I can get a sense of performance and speed. It's just hard to visualize what the system could actually handle and numbers don't mean much to me.

It is bad form to use a server as a workstation. You will be running server software, I assume, which is not really client software for which applications are written. You will also be hogging resources one way or the other. You may want to consider a Mini to serve up your website until you can afford an xServe. As far as Xsan, that is really high horse power, and is a good fit for video editing (you need two sxServes and a fiber switch to do an Xsan). You can probably get by with just a RAID attached to the server if you are just hosting web sites, at least in the beginning.

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