Recommend an affordable Atom/ARM SoC for linux media PC and web server?

No, that would be plenty - if that was all I was going to do. I can see it getting used for much more.
The Odroid-C1+ running Arch (my favourite) is looking pretty damn tempting as a Christmas present to myself ...

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Thanks, I wasn't sure if it belonged there or not. Appreciate it

I ended up buying a fitlet PC

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...A3J2VUK9571N8X

It has linux support listed, this model includes three aditional ethernet ports, and it supports adding up to 8gb of memory and a m2 sata. Lots of USB, and it is still small and fanless. I ordered it with an 8gb SODIMM and a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, and it should work great.

I appreciate your thought and suggestions. For those who are curious I will probably post a software build log later if I make something interesting. Not all sure how I want to do it yet, but I am thinking about spinning up some VMs for web servers and making it into a bad ass router .

Thanks again.

What all are you planning on running?
I run owncloud on an RP2 then run minidlna, nfs shares and samba shares on another.