>-----Original Message----- >From: shawn.gr...@sun.com [mailto:shawn.gr...@sun.com] >Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:21 AM >To: Daevid Vincent >Cc: 'Dan Nelson'; mysql@lists.mysql.com >Subject: Re: Event feature already working in Server 5.1.37 > >Daevid Vincent wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnel...@allantgroup.com] >>> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:42 PM >>> To: Daevid Vincent >>> >>> ...snipped ... >> People really use Windows for a mySQL server? Weird. >> >... > >Yes, they do. > >Not only is MySQL as cheap as the free version of MS SQL but it doesn't >suffer from the hard limits the free version of MS SQL imposes and it >works across all of your servers, regardless of platform. MS products >are limited to Windows boxes. You cannot assemble a new Linux box and >get MS-anything to run on it natively. > [JS] I second this. Instead of using a LAMP development environment, I went with WAMP -- even though our production environment was LAMP. It was a lot easier than setting up LAMP in a virtual machine. When we shut down our LAMP site for cost reasons, I moved it to a WAMP environment that I bought off the shelf for $800. For that money I got 8GB of RAM, four cores, and a RAID controller. Another $90 for a second drive, and I've got mirroring going.
Granted, it's a low-traffic site used for internal administration; but I think this box could handle a lot more traffic than it does. It seems to be loafing all of the time. It's a home/SOHO/gamer system, so it probably isn't as physically robust as a "server" grade machine at twice the price; but if it dies, I can be up and running on a newer, bigger, cheaper machine in little more than the time it takes me to run to the nearest big-box store. Regards, Jerry Schwartz The Infoshop by Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341 www.the-infoshop.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
