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As the Intel Mac mini is significantly more powerful but still has modest power consumption and is the same minute size, pretty much all the same advantages apply.
So yes, for the amount of traffic you describe it is perfect.
It is possible to use even the 'personal websharing' feature in the 'ordinary' Mac OS X 10.4 software as the webserver since it is in reality Apache just like the full Mac OS X Server. I have even used this to run Squirrelmail (webmail) on top. Unlike the full Mac OS X Server, you will probably have to hand edit some of the Apache configuration files since it does not include the Mac OS X Server Configuration utility to do this (e.g. to turn on PHP).
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