Could I use "Windows Vista Home Premium Edition" as an operating system on a web-server?

Posted by admin on Sep 2nd, 2010 and filed under Home Security Systems. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

I already have a legitimate copy on disc. Leave aside that it’s not an ideal server OS. Leave aside biases in favour of Linux or other systems. (And I would plan to install extra security-software and a hardware firewall.) Is there a technical or licensing reason why I could or should not run "Vista Home Premium" as the OS on my web-server?

1 Response for “Could I use "Windows Vista Home Premium Edition" as an operating system on a web-server?”

  1. Roland J says:
    September 2, 2010 at 11:51 pm

    Yes because microsoft does not want you to install IIS on the home edition. Now if you want to get a copy of Apache then that should get you going. But Apache runs best on a linux machine. Go get a old computer and put linux on it and let it serve up your pages.

    RJ

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