We are currently running W2KS and are hosting 7 domains from the
single server. We would like to upgrade to 2003 server but are having
trouble finding out which version we need to buy to be able to do this
using IIS as we do now. I understand that the Small Business server
cannot host domains (pr at leasat that's what the sales documentation
implies. If that is so, which version upwards from that do we need to
run multiple domains using IIS?

Any help would be gratefully receied as taliking to MS on the
telephone to get an answer to this is almost impossible.

David

If all that is going on with the server is hosting a variety of web sites,
you could likely utilize Windows 2003 Web Server edition. However, you will
need to note that if the web site is complex (like running SQL Server locally
- not a good practice by the way) and your server has more than a couple of
processors, you will want to consider Windows 2003 Standard Edition. For a
comparison of the versions check out:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...eeditions.mspx


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Paul Hinsberg


"dnews@bbbweb.com" wrote:

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:09:01 -0800, "Paul Hinsberg"
<paulhins(antispam)@comcast.net> wrote:

non-dynamic domains. Each of them hand off the difficult stuff to
other servers on the network. We have done some testing on XP Pro
running Sambar as the web server and that does what we need so we have
save the expense of a 2003 server package. What is interesting is a
call we made to Microsoft here in the Uk to ask this question.

1. The person on the other end had to take our question and relay it
to someone else - we could not speak directly to an expert.
2. It was suggested that we mi9ght have to pay for this 'technical
support' but this was changed when we pointed out that we were making
a pre-sales enquiry
3. Their reecommendation was that we needed the Enterprise edition -
just under £3000 ($5,500) here in the Uk when actually a £210 web
edition would do the trick, thanks to your advice.

It was kind of you to help.

regards

David