Pineapple Boudoir is a startup that sells lingerie, candles, sex toys and other products, aimed largely at women. The first challenge was to design an infrastructure to support the web-application and cart. Having previous experience with Windows and the .NET environment we decided to follow this route, based on Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. At launch we are running SQL and IIS on this single server, although we intend to run SQL on a separate [...]