> > First rule of web hosting: NEVER EVER allow ISAPI dll's.
> Yes, but do people sitting down & churning out a lovely web app
> know that?
They should - would you start writing your app before looking at where its
going to be hosted?
> It's not until they go to deploy the app & they get evil looks from web
> hosting services (or the bill for tele-housing a machine) that those DLL's
> start looking like a bad idea.
Yup, exactly.
> And even some of the known ones have backdoors or can leak memory to
> death...
dont I know it :) ASPMail used to be a good example of this.
> NT security <cough, cough>. I would hope that any NT machine running a IIs
> server that is exposed to the world has _everything_ locked down and that
> sites only have read/write access to there only directory
> structure. In the
> real world, I suspect most people just run IIs on a default setup which is
> not secure.
Exactly. BTW, sometime, try moving an IIS setup from machine A to machine B,
ie if the disk gets unusable (ie, NT has been on it for > 6 months), etc.
You can't. I've spent a week or so moving over 100+ sites by hand 'cos IIS
(and NT) doesn't have _any_ way to backup and restore its settings. Its not
in the registry - its in the "metabase", which can't be transported.
> Yeah, AFAIK, IIs market share is dropping which is quite amazing
> given that
> MS are pushing it with every copy of NT/Win2K - and of course MS have
> 'studies' that show that IIs is faster than Apache <cough,
> bullshit, cough>.
exactly. Hell, I'd take a hit in speed to get something that doesn't fall
over, and something that I can backup and take to another machine easily!!
Remember, folks: your average 386-20 can saturate a 10meg ethernet card with
cycles to spare. Imagine what happens when you put a PIII Xeon-800 or
something similar in with a single 100meg card... not that any ISP in NZ has
100meg of bandwidth that they are going to let a single customer use....
OC768 anyone??? :) (OC1 = 55meg/s)
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