I am building a new Windows Server 2008 R2 install to host my Joomla! 1.6 website. What are best practices of hosting a WAMP production server? What should I do for partition? A drive for logs, a drive for the OS and a drive for data? What would be the most ideal and secure setup?
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The best practices are not to use it. It's best to pick tools native to your platform. If you want to run an *AMP stack, do it on Linux/Unix and install/configure the components individually, don't use a preconfigured package that's aimed at development.
The default configuration for WAMP/LAMP is extremely insecure, because it's meant to give a quick turnkey dev environment. It's not a production solution. If you really care about security, you'll install each component separately and follow the best practices for security for each product individually.