WSS 3 administration

We all know WSS 3.0 has made significant changes from its predecessor. One in particular is the Central Administration area. In WSS 3.0, we now have the ability to create IIS websites from the web interface alone. I'm not referring to subsites or site collection - but actually creating a "website" inside IIS. In WSS 2.0 - you must manually create a website in IIS and then "extend" that website from the administration pages. In the new version, you can create: 1) web applications (which is a container of site collections - which requires a unique port, hence a "website" in IIS), 2) site collections within your web applications 3) content databases within the your web applications.

WSS 3.0 has made setting up a farm of websites and databases very easy and straightforward. A big leap from WSS 2.0