I lease a dedicated server (dual-core 2.1ghz, 1 GB Ram) for $120 per month. It's time to upgrade packages. I can either go up to a 2 GB memory package with an opteron processor, or I can stay with the same hardware (and pay half as much).
I'd really like to use Windows Server 2008 if possible.
How well does this run on 1 GB of memory compared to Windows Server 2003?
Thanks!
Best Answer
My personal experience is that Server 2008 is slower then Server 2003, but not by huge amounts. I'm running a server 2008 VM with 1Gb RAM for development, with IIS installed and serving a few webpages and it runs fine, not had any problems with it. I think if you put SQL on there it would start to get a bit sluggish. So I guess it really depends on what you want to do with it. If your current server has 1Gb and is running ok then you will more than likely be ok with Server 2008, if your currently running near the top in terms of resource usage I would suspect moving to server 2008 may tip you over.