[The Duke]

I'd say $10,000 is a good price for the "design"...but to go to production you're definately talking a much larger budget.

[ikka]

I'd say $10,000 is a good price for the "design"...but to go to production you're definately talking a much larger budget.

You could run a small auction site on a single x86 server (I use OpenBSD, www.openbsd.org, for my servers); but yes, after say 5000 transactions per day you would need something significantly beefier.