I'm at a company where we are currently using IIS (hopefully for not much
longer!) and although it is initially easier to setup a *single* server with
a number of virtual directories it is a real pain if you have a decently
large server farm that you are going to have to replicate this configuration
to.
There aren't any *good* tools out there for replicating the IIS Metabase
from machine to machine and when you have about 15 web sites per server and
they all have 5 or so virtual directories, setting up a new web server is a
real pain. And don't get me started on how many times the metabase has
gotten corrupted and caused us to just start over.
I'll take text-file based configuration any day as its very simple to just
zip up the configuration files and drop them onto another machine in the
cluster, make a few minor changes here and there and you're done. Yes,
there is a little more initial overhead but in the long run it will save me
a lot of time.
It all comes down to the complexity of the deployment you have to worry
about but in my opinion and experience IIS is just not built to handle
complex web-sites very well. Sure, it may be able to, but it doesn't make
it easy.
-Mike
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:25 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Re: Deploy question...
That aint no stupid question, Orion application deployment has been very
difficult for me. It's not like IIS where you create your virtual directory
and drop in your files accordingly, map it to an ip and it works!
S
