I'm considering using a bunch of Raspberry Pi's as low-cost distributed load balanced web servers. This is probably a terrible idea but I wanted to investigate it anyway.
Could I install IIS or something similar on a Raspberry Pi?
I'm considering using a bunch of Raspberry Pi's as low-cost distributed load balanced web servers. This is probably a terrible idea but I wanted to investigate it anyway.
Could I install IIS or something similar on a Raspberry Pi?
As ppumkin pointed out the in comments, don't use IIS. You can definitely use nginx. Apache also works.
Finally, don't discount the possibility of a simple node.js script to implement a server. Depending on what you want to do (dynamic content versus static), you may get even better performance than with nginx.
lighttpd is a nice lightweight server, designed to use as little memory as possible (http://www.lighttpd.net/)
Apache is what I use on my RPi. The raspberry pi isn't very well suited for use as a web server, but it is well worth a go.