Hello, all!

Been lurking for awhile and finally made an account :p

So, I'm in the early stages of starting a gambling related site that will exclusively use BTC. Yeah, I know I'm not the first one with this idea. And all legal issues aside, my questions revolve around wallet security when hosting such a site.

I assume that it would be safest to not have the wallet hosted on the site, but I am unclear how I would do automated cash-in/cash-outs otherwise. I have a pretty good understanding of PHP and other "web technologies", but with BTC, I have no experience other than as a user.

I've found a VPS provider that accepts BTC and they, I believe, offer Windows Server 2008 (i need win for my existing apps). So, in addition to wallet safety in a setup like this, I also wanted to know if anyone had basic Win08 server suggestions. I'm not very familiar with it. Does a server like that need anti-virus as well? Or because I am not surfing the web from it is it unnecessary?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated. And if this is ignored, I won't hold it against y'all!

Thanks!