Your advices to set up a server of Win 2003
I am going to set us a Windows 2003 Server. It will be my first web server.
Help from the experienced will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your attention and advices!
Dot net ,MS SQL and an email server will run on this machine to support our online catalogue and ordering systems. A huge QTY of images will be stored. And 10 websites are to be hosted. Only one is premier, others have light traffic. Dynamic applications are not much heavy. But we make inserts and update our catalogue every day. Under this condition, I have some novice-level questions:
1. CPU
Shall I choose Celeron or Pentium?
1.7GHz or 2.4 GHz or even higher??
2. Firewall
We don't want a cisco to save budget.
Has windows 2003 server have a built-in firewall?
Or any other firewall software okay? e.g. Norton enterprise??
3. Anitvirus?
Norton?? or...
4. Email server software
Does Microsoft Exchange server suck?
Or other good options??
5. Which host company? ServerMatrix or other companies??
6. Any other things to note??
A lot thanks!!
Robert
