Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has written a wonderful article for newbies and experience pros alike for the sponsored site Software Quality Connection with the above title. He has lots of great suggestions and the article is well worth a quick read.
It used to be easy to pick a Web server for running your business: if you were a Microsoft shop, it was IIS, the Web server that comes as part of Windows Server; if not there was Apache.
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