switching to a linux OS

[DeathMarine]

im currently using a dedicated Windows Server 2003. I want to swich it over to CentOS so i can run websites off of it.

my main concern is connecting to it. Can i still use Vista's Remote Desktop Connection to connect to CentOS?

if not whats the easiest way?

im thinking of also using a Raid 5 config. Would it be extra or just the price of the extra HDDs?

[ghmac]

If you have a GUI installed, you could probably set up VNC, but that's not what i would do..

I would use SSH + PuTTy (I like PuTTy Tray, which minimizes to the tray and has a pretty icon @ http://www.xs4all.nl/~whaa/putty/) to remotely access it (although you would have to get used to the commands, and not having a GUI).

As an alternative, you could also use either IIS which is built into server 03, or use Apache for windows if you want to keep the nice Windows GUI

[DeathMarine]

i do like the Windows UI and the simplicity of just remote connecting to the server.

i figured it out how to run a webserver using apache, mysql, php on windows. Now the site i had hosted else im testing on the server and its at least 10 times faster!