On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Luke Welsh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Raymond Fung <[email protected]> wrote: >> If "reliability" is important, why not move to Linux !!!
I'm sure Linux is great, but Scott's experience is with Windows-based servers. It isn't practical for Scott to learn all the ins-and-outs of setting up and administering/monitoring a Linux server just to save $1000 on software costs. It would also require a not-insignificant amount of time to convert stored procedures and PHP SQL statements to MYSql of Postgresql. I know we have taken advantage of MS SQL extensions. > I believe that the main concern is hardware reliability, especially a > good immunity to faulting disks. This is true. If the web site is down for a day, it isn't the end of the world. If we lose some or all of our LL or factoring data - that is horrible. So, high availability is nice but not crucial. Protection against data loss -- priceless. _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
