My problem (at the moment) with the dedicated ftp server is that I then need two dedicated ftp servers. I cannot afford to have any single point of failure.

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Is there risk in installing it in this manner?

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• If you only need FTP, you can choose not to install WWW and...

I am playing devils advocate, but I need a better convincing argument. Personally I think IIS should never be on the same server regardless of whether you are using it...

Any gottchas with installing IIS on the database server (security concerns). We need it only for FTP. Our is behind a Firewall, on a seperate segment, we need FTP to...

I'm assuming that you ask this because something went wrong with the load. How many licenses, is the database in sql user mode or dbo use only?

Thank you Antares686 for sharing how and when you use pintable.

From a design point of you I agree with you Andy, going forward I'm sure I'll be in on...

I'm in NJ as well, at least the snow kept some of the users home.

What raid configuration did you go to? Did this alone account for the performance gain?...

'grow transactional log automatically' - This is okay as long as you procatively monitor your disk and transaction log space.

'truncate log on checkpoint' - If you lost your databse...