Web Hosting : Windows WEB Server 2008 -stand alone?

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This web hosting thread started by RPK_MN1 on 12 October 2008

I’m working with a local ISP and we’re working on getting some windows hosting going (he’s been 100% linux thus far). We’re trying to ensure that we can host my e-commerce site on Windows Web Server 2008. It seems like it does exactly what we want – we can run a sql exress instance on it and just host the site on that same box. that’s all we want to do.

The ISP talked to some sort of Microsoft software reseller who’s trying to convince him that Web Server 2008 requires Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (or some other version anyway) implying taht Web Server 2008 is simply an addon type of thing and has to run on top of another OS. Can anyone clear this up definitively?

Also, are there any MAXimum system reqs for Web Server? I seem to remember reading somewhere you could only run 4 CPUs and like 4 gigs of ram or something with Web Server 2008.

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