dstiles - 9:56 pm on Jan 9, 2013 (gmt 0)

Wilderness - Me? Lurking? :)

pkKumar - IIS is IIS and nothing else, although it does have .NET as a so-called "smart" "plugin" - never use it myself. So: IIS is not "preferred" but mandatory.

ASP code CAN run on an emulator - I think there are two or three - but it's not something I would ever consider. I looked at them a year or two ago and they were not reported as reliable. In fact, few emulators of this nature are every completely reliable.

If you only have one or two web sites to manage it's worth re-coding for apache or some other linux/unix server, probably using PHP to code and MySQL as the database (if required). You can use PHP under IIS but why? If you decide on PHP then run it on the far safer (from hacks) linux machine.