I need to deploy a file server in a server farm that is running Windows 2003.
The server will not only store files, but it will make the accessible via the web.
The webservers will receive uploaded photos. In the website folder, will be another folder called "files". This folder needs to be a location on a network storage device. So when a user uploads a photo, it will be written to the 'files' folder, which is the storage device.
Once the photos/files make it to the file server, they also need to be hosted. For instance if the file server is named 'fileserver01' the url would look like
fileserver01.company.com/files/folder1/file1.jpg
I'm undecided if I just want to deploy another windows 2003 web server OS based server, or something like CentOS, setup samba and apache. I don't expect the configuration to change much once it is deployed, and I want to make a master server image so I can deploy multiple instances if possible. If I use CentOS, I don't have to worry about licensing, etc.
The server will not only store files, but it will make the accessible via the web.
The webservers will receive uploaded photos. In the website folder, will be another folder called "files". This folder needs to be a location on a network storage device. So when a user uploads a photo, it will be written to the 'files' folder, which is the storage device.
Once the photos/files make it to the file server, they also need to be hosted. For instance if the file server is named 'fileserver01' the url would look like
fileserver01.company.com/files/folder1/file1.jpg
I'm undecided if I just want to deploy another windows 2003 web server OS based server, or something like CentOS, setup samba and apache. I don't expect the configuration to change much once it is deployed, and I want to make a master server image so I can deploy multiple instances if possible. If I use CentOS, I don't have to worry about licensing, etc.
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