I disagree, It's like the difference of learning the QWERTY keyboard layout compared to DVORAK. Once you learn one it's hard to switch, but the learning curve on both are probably equal if you're just starting out.
Chisholm Wildermuth Systems Engineer dbWebNet, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Buel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 4:15 AM To: 'Peter Thoenen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Webservers Guys- I will be a heretic and vote for IIS--you can install it in about 1 minute, easy to use, just like Apache, keep up on your patches! :) As far as the CLI, I have mixed feelings. I'm dumb as a rock about 'NIX, and the biggest problem I have is that you have so much overhead to learn to do the simplest things. Even if you look it up in the "man-pages" (I think that's right) you still might end up re-compiling something to get it to run! At least with the GUI, you run help, and just click the link in help to run the task...also, if you know there's a window that will configure it, you can always hunt around and find it... Finally, there are a billion books out there on windows, and technet as well. But, of course, if you know 'NIX, it is easier to administer for you, and if you know Windows, it would be easier to administer! To me, the only sticking point here is that if you don't know either one, the GUI is faster to learn! Bob -----Original Message----- From: Peter Thoenen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 12:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Webservers Depends how you define easy to administer :) ... In my head it is easier to do all configuration options and server directives out of a single flat text file and the ability to run all server commands via the command line either at the terminal or with open-ssh. This is of course as opposed to a millions windows with subwindows/directories/files/hidden options/registery hacks, but maybe thats just me :) . There are are some GUI apache configuration tools out there but couldn't give you any offhand as I have never really looked for any. Peter Tom Geldner wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Bremer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>number of reasons. Can people here suggest a low-cost (or free), >>>secure, easy-to-administer replacement?? >> >>Apache. Version 1.3.x of Apache doesn't perform as well as IIS >>when running on windows, but since you said it was a low volume >>web site, it should be fine. If you need the performance, you can >>try the new Apache 2.x. The initial benchmarks shows that it >>performs as well as IIS when running on windows. Apache 2.x is >>pretty new, but I'll bet it's still far more secure than IIS. > > > OK, so far it's Apache 10 votes. Anything else, 0 votes. <G> The one > thing that's kept me from trying it is the implementation. Remember, > one of my criteria was "easy-to-administer" and I've heard that Apache > is totally command/console driven vs. web or gui administerable. > > Tom G >
