Hi, I have a query about windows servers as I am a LAMP person normally. I need to run a data scraping script that works perfectly fine on a windows xp machine, would it be reasonable to say it would work on a windows server? Does it work like that? Anything I need to investigate?
Theoretically it should, but some software writers alter their scripts/software to detect the OS and then won't allow it to run on a server operating system without paying extra money for it. It's not that the software for the server needs to be different, it's just that they want to charge more for it. Give it a try and see what happens.
windows server 2008 is good, but a lot of applications won't work. but a XP server with XAMPP on it is also good. not fully secured but stable.
Xp and server 2003 are pretty much the same thing. 2008 on the other hand is more like vista/7. they just take the OS and add server capabilities. server 03 should be fine for what you need