I have a project coming up for a new small business - 5-6 employees. I'm currently proposing 2 servers running Windows Server Foundation 2008 and hosted Exchange. I'm wondering if people think this would be a good set up. I know Foundation has some limitations but I don't think that would be a problem for this business.
They basically need the following split between the two servers:
Domain Controller
Terminal Services
File and Print Server
Application Server (Quickbooks)
Antivirus Solution
Please let me know your thoughts on what I am proposing and also if you have suggestions on how to split the required server roles.
My other consideration is to replace on of the proposed servers with SBS 2011 and host the email in-house. It would only cost about $500 more but I don't know if it would be cost effective for such a small company. They do have a small budget for this project so I can't tweak it too much.
Thanks in advance for your replies!