In future I will take more time to make my point better. I have already replied in depth to the original mail on the subject. And my apologise to all for mistakenly starting a flame here.
Can I point out that while criticism is a healthy part of these list servers can we make it constructive. I can live with "Trevor Cushen is an idiot you should be running X product on Y Server, see so and so web site for more details" that is constructive. And even I the idiot get to learn something. But just "Trevor Cushen is an idiot" is useless to everyone. And finally before anyone replies, I know nobody said I was an idiot but also I don't see a lot of replies to the original question, at the moment anyway. So to wrap up this flame, can we get back to the question posed orginally?. "Which is the better web server to use and why?" Trevor Cushen Sysnet Ltd www.sysnet.ie Tel: +353 1 2983000 Fax: +353 1 2960499 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 July 2002 20:08 To: Trevor Cushen Cc: Mario Behring; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NT/2000 vs Unix based Web Servers In previous mail, Trevor Cushen spouted... > > you. Apache gives you the freedom of almost any hardware platform, but > load balancing is far easier to setup on Windows then any Unix systems. Can you justify this statement? How is windows any easier to load balance a service on than a win32 platform? > Personal firewalls are freely available for both Unix and Windows > systems which is a good idea for a web site. And at the end of the day > if IIS is already up and running and you are having no problems why > change. Just secure it if you are worried about the security. For the simple fact that the odds of a new exploit / hole being discovered for IIS vastly outweighs the odds of one being found for Apache? > the more basic web site, with Java, Perl and/or similar. IIS gives you > more functionality into COM objects and streaming media is easier to > build with Windows systems as more software is available for it and a > better price. Again, how is win32 any better at streaming media then Apache on a *NIX server? And at a better price? John -- "Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." - William James
