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Join Date: Aug 2008
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 Dedicated Windows servers are fine. It is all in how you manage them. If you slap every free app you can find on a dedicated Windows server, then you will have problems. Add Windows firewall, then Windows Defender, then add-on an anti-virus application and you have trouble if you intend to use it as a web or database hosting box.
Keep the box lean, don't use your live public box for testing and playing. Do not combine a bunch of services onto one box, therefore I do not recommend running IIS, SQL Server, email, (and who knows what else) on the same machine unless it is a BIG server like a Quad-core Dell PowerEdge 2950. Even then, your limitation for reliability is Windows, and your knowledge of what to do and what not to do.
Advantages of a Windows box:
-May be easier to find Windows admin people depending on your region.
-If you want to run ASP.NET, you need Windows IIS.
-Windows supports PHP just fine if it is setup right. Make sure your host knows how to do this.
-Bill Gates needs more money. 
Disadvantages:
-Not great for running many, multiple, power hungry applications that run in Windows as a service.
-None other that I can think of, but I admit I have hardly ever touched a Linux or Unix box.
Anyways, just my 2 cents.
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