Wez Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Hey All, Building a windows server for someone and they have the option of either Server SBS 2003 R2 or Server Standard Edition 2003 R2. They are going to host there own website, dns, files and MS SQL. I was opting for SBS but wondered what people thought on here. The last windows servers I built were 2000 advanced server about two to three years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Sbs 2003 R2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Cool thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 You need Premium if you want SQL Server included. Your app might be fine with MSDE though which is free but limited to 10 concurrent connections I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 The SBS DVD i have is premium edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Why do they want to host their own website? What connectivity do they have? ADSL? If it's anything but for their own users, it'll usually ends in tears. SBS is great value for money for small businesses (up to 75 seats) Like Carl says, you may not need the full SQL Server - it's usually overkill for most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Its more of an intranet than website One of the new application they are going to use has MS SQL as the backend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Should be fine then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted February 7, 2007 Author Share Posted February 7, 2007 Not worked on MS server stuff for a long time, we use AIX, Solaris and Linux at my place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted February 14, 2007 Author Share Posted February 14, 2007 When are MS going to sort there driver support out. I can put a Linux distro in and it sees the raid disks and controller no worries, fecking windows needs a driver disk, on bloody floppy as well, utter crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 It is a PITA, particularly when floppies are now considered 'legacy' However, it really comes down to the fact that a lot of the Linux driver support is written by or integrated by the kernel developers. As far as Windows goes, much of this stuff is third-party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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