[ale] help with Apache redhat setup

[mark walters]

I'm rebuilding 2 machines and was seeking advice on some setup issues.
Here is the current setup.

Currently Machine One runs Redhat with Apache 1.3.3. With minimum
number of secure users.
Machine 2 runs Redhat with over 100 users that ssh or ftp in and
upload files for personal web pages.
Machine 1 NFS mounts  Machine 2 and serves up web pages from user
accounts that are only on Machine 2 .
The Main sites data sits on Machine 1  serving  domain www.site.com
and user data sits on Machine 2 and serves www.site.com/~user through
the NFS mount.
I would like to get away from the NFS mounts.

I'll have the following components available for a new solution
2 blades in an enclosure attached to a San via redundant fiber channel cards.
Available Redhat versions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS and ES for x86
I will be using Apache 2 (latest version that ships with Redhat).
I won't have access to Redhat GFS .
I'm in the planning phase and open to all ideas except setting up a cluster.
I would still like to have:
Machine 1 with minimum of secure users
Macine 2 with general accounts accessing storage space for web pages.
I would like machine one as primary web server serving www.site.com
I would like to have general user data on Machine 2  with www.site.com/~user
Thanks in advance for the help.
Mark