Dedicated Servers?

[Tourmalyn]

I'm going to go ahead and start something just for the sake of doing it. I've been needing an excuse to learn PHP or JSP anyways. As far as the platform, I would probably lean toward Microsoft since transactions to an access/sql database from PHP/ASP are dead simple. Additionaly, it would be easy to write a VB app to run 24/7 that would manage the lauching/shutting down of Dom2 servers, and maintanence of the databases. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against Linux, I just don't want to deal with the tediousness of writing a C++ app to do the maintanence on an OS I am unfamiliar with.