Re: What happened to cheap and cheerful?
"Can 2003 really beat LAMP/LNMP for cost and loading of simple websites?"
It's certainly a lot easier to setup, run and maintain with far fewer security patches to evaluate. It doesn't scale very well on Server 2003 though. However the current version with Server 2012 R2 seems to have addressed every angle on that and outperforms Apache in my testing on the same hardware.