Originally Posted by Forbairt

Hmmm.... check out what the majority of people are using the cart software on. Check if there are any problems with it.

My gut would say go linux ... .htaccess and mod rewrite is nice

Apart from that I'm more comfortable with *nix systems ( well the file systems ... ssh .. and so on)

Remember if you're connecting to the site set up sftp or scp for file transfers as well.