I am wondering what operating system to put on our newly acquired dedicated server. The server, which has 1GB memory and a Duo Core 2.13GHz processor will house one site and be database driven. At the moment we do not anticipate that any other non-essential applications will run on the server. Would it be wise to install Windows Server Web Edition or go for the Standard Edition? Any information on advantages or potential drawbacks of each would be appreciated.
If you can take standard edition, web edition is purposely crippled so that it cant install MS SQL which would be a great inconvenience should you need one. Also it only support 2 SMP CPU, these are the two major disadvantages I normally encounter.