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Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
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- These machines are quite old (2006 vintage), but have been upgraded with SSDs for the databases. They are running Windows 2003. I do not want to transition to Linux at this time.
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- Run an instance of 2008 or 2012 to run the front end of IIS (I do not want to move to Linux at this time - I have too many windows-based scripts, etc. running on the current box).
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- Main reason for moving to the cloud? Consolidation of server resources into a single scalable server instance, and also into a single database instance. Better reliability / uptime in case of natural disaster (earthquake, etc.). Offsite backups would continue to provide protection against Amazon going out of business or having some large event that would wipe the cloud. The servers are nearing 10+ years old. Windows 2003 support expires 1 year from now. It's time to upgrade.
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Wayne
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Windows Azure looks perfect for your Windows based shop. It has 20% market share and has been growing like crazy.
No affliation.