Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 are the most advanced Windows Server operating systems yet, designed to power the next generation of networks, applications, and Web services. With these operating systems you can develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within your organization.

Internet Information Services (IIS), formerly called Internet Information Server, is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows. It is the most used web server after Apache HTTP Server: As of January 2011, it served 21.00% of all websites on the Internet and 16.22% of the one million busiest websites on the Internet. IIS 7.5 supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools that help people derive the most value from information at the lowest total-cost-of-ownership. Enjoy high levels of performance, availability, and security; employ more productive management and development tools; and deliver pervasive insight with self-service business intelligence (BI).

Active Directory stores all information and settings for a deployment in a central database. Active Directory allows administrators to assign policies, deploy and update software. Active Directory networks can vary from a small installation with a few computers, users and printers to tens of thousands of users, many different network domains and large server farms spanning many geographical locations.

Parallels Plesk Panel gives you a turnkey Web hosting system that includes fully automated billing and provisioning, an integrated SiteBuilder, and access to over a hundred Web-based applications that you can use to create unique service plans that meet a variety of customer needs.

I have two years of hands on experience with Plesk, ranging from Plesk 8 to Plesk 10.