Use the latest version of apache.
make sure your ftp has it's permissions set right and directories are quarantined off.
turn anonymous connections to your ftp OFF
run both FTP,IRC,and HTTP in a guest account.
set passwords for these accounts to 10+ characters.
turn off remote registry
have fun bud
btw some suggestions about you needing a hard drive could be:
going to the electronics recycling plant and asking to have one, they'll make about 3 dollars per hard drive so you can expect to have to pay about that much.
Go dumpster diving
, find the business district and go check out outside the dumpsters you'll find a few computers lying around there about once a month or so and keep digging out the hard drives even if they are only a gig or so and build a raid system.
