Server Help

[James]

I have bought a dell server or work, 2.8ghz gigbit network etc
And i have windows server 2003 on it. I have a program that i need for work that is windows.

And i was thinking if i could make a work website aswell.
As running just the program on the server is a bit of a waste.
I was doing some testing, and i want to know:
* Whats the best control panel for me (cpanel, zpanel, plesk etc)
* run the web server on linux or windows (ill run windows server03 as main, and virtual the linux if i did use it)
* can i use my ip, (tempory) as the domain
So
http://64.56.43.4 <<<-main site
http://64.56.43.4/user
http://user.64.56.43.4

I will get a domain name in the end, but i need to make sure its all working.
Is the a free sub-domain, that allows you to make sub domains on that.

e.g. for x10
www.user.myname.x10hosting.com
the user part is the clients and the myname is my name for my sub domain that i choise.

post your links here
And also comment on the questions

thanks guys,

[Jake]

pleask lisense (the 100 dollar one)
linux
and you can make a hostname

[Jake]

if you use fedora core 5 or linux of any sort you can put nameservers on (on windows too) and have a domain point to it (then make the hostname)

forgot to mention that

[James]

Make a host name? how do i go about doing that.
I allready have a my-name.no-ip.com or the many thousands of other ones.
I need like a server like my-name.no-ip.com
But i need user to be able to:
username.my-name.no-ip.com
or
my-name.no-ip.com/username

something like that

Plus linux what type?
and is it suppost to be so big, the download for many are 10 650mb cds
like how big is it, windows is only one

thanks

[Corey]

x10 is run off of RHEL3 (Red Hat Enterprise 3), I like it . They currently do not make cPanel\WHM for Windows so you'd have to use Linux for that. cPanel\WHM is definitely the best I've seen for managing a server and all for you. Only downfall is all the panels usually cost $XX\mo.

I would stick to Windows as the learning curve is much, much smaller.

-Corey

[Jake]

well you can try plesk for windows, think most software like it goes throught the hostname config...

[James]

well you can try plesk for windows, think most software like it goes throught the hostname config...

Ill installing plesk, on windows 2003, the service wasnt comming up, so i had to reinstall everything.
localhost:8254 was getting a no server found error msg becouse of it.

thanks for everyones help

[James]

The install keeps failing, dam
when it come to perl
im trying it using IIS instead of netserver and apache2traid

[Jake]

try installing perl again, if you havnt