I want to be able to start and stop (run and terminate) an application when it's needed, not programmatically but through a web interface. I noticed windows home server has a nice web interface shown in this article: http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2007/03/windows-home-server-beta-2-part-3/ I was wondering if Server 2008 R2 has something similar for iis that allows me to do this? If not, then it doesn't have to start/stop applications, those features in the home server web interface seem nice to have too.
I also notice there's a role called "Application Server", though it's not a web interface, if I have to end up making my own web interface, I'd like to know whether those services leave a significant memory footprint or not.