We're looking at setting up an environment that has a SQL Server 2012 Standard Server replicating to a Sql Server 2012 Web Edition server using merge replication. One of the reasons we're doing this is so that records can be updated from an app on a web server to the subscribing server, and data loads can be done on one the publishing server. We're also using this for DR purposes as well.
My question is, if the publishing Standard server fails, can the publication server be rebuilt and have the records that were updated while the publishing server was down, replicated back from the subscribing server? Plus, is this even possible using the web edition on one end? Would it work if I have Standard edition for each server since Web edition only supports subscriber only?