On Friday, June 14, 2002 at 11:30:07 PM, Bruce Karstedt wrote: > Put your site on a *nix box with apache its a heck of a lot faster > and a heck of a lot more stable and a heck of a lot easier to configure and > upgrade.
It's all very well saying that, but have you got any evidence to back those comments up? With the arrival of Win2k, the win32 platform has become a lot more stable and IMHO is now on a par with the '*nix' platform. As far as how easy they are to configure and upgrade, it depends where you're coming from. But for a complete beginner, IIS beats the competition hands down. The speed issue is a tricky one. In another email you say... On Saturday, June 15, 2002 at 12:08:51 AM, Bruce Karstedt wrote: > The last test I did was to put a custom built (by me) box dual 1.2G P4's 36G > Raid 5 all on 7200RPM spindles and 2GB ram running WIN 2000 Server with all > the back office toys vs. an old 133M Pentium, 1.2G 256Meg garbage box I had > in the basement running BSDi Unix with squid caching. The garbage box was 8 > times faster. Look I'm not out to bash Microsoft but every good carpenter > has more than one tool in his box and knows which one to use for which job. That's the only benchmark you have? Not very conclusive is it. How did you measure the speed? What were you requesting of the server? Was it under load? Were both servers under exactly the same conditions? You can't possibly expect us to accept that as definitive proof that the '*nix' platform is faster. The only benchmark I would accept as definitive proof is one using identical hardware and where each server has been tuned by an Apache/IIS expert as appropriate. Each server must be hit by the same test script using the same network connection which must also be in controlled conditions (i.e. a dedicated connection). > Even Microsoft uses Unix for their Web Servers. Actually their main site is served by IIS 5 on Win2k (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.microsoft.com). I know that they do use other platforms for other servers, but as far as I can tell, they are providing minor services compared to the IIS servers. But do correct me if I'm wrong. -- Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
