:: Based on my own experience, if you have worked with Unix :: machines sometime in your past -- it could be in your :: distant past --, choose Apache on Linux or any flavor of :: Unix over Windows. Unix is far easier to comprehend than :: Windows, the documentation is better, and the help more :: readily given and abundant. Oh yeah, and more stable.
Having just migrated my mod-perl software from Win2K to Linux I heartily agree with Kurt. With only very limited Unix knowledge, I have managed to setup my server, secure it, and install and configure all the systems I needed. I have found the Linux brigade to be very knowledgeable, very helpful and very willing to SHARE (thank you #Linux). The quality and volume of documentation will surprise you too. Why did I migrate? My Windows server (running Microsofts' latest and greatest) rarely stayed up for longer than 48 consecutive hours. My Linux box has not been down since I installed (about 2 weeks ago). Benchmarks also demonstrate a performance gain in my mod_perl apps of around 20% over the same apps, in the same setup, under Windows. I expect to increase this with a little tweaking in the future. All the best. Jonathan M. Hollin - WYPUG Co-ordinator West Yorkshire Perl User Group http://wypug.pm.org/
