Very Well Said Mark Nash. All servers, OS, and software have a learning Curve. I know nothing of Linux. Not because the desire is not there, the time isn't. There are things that I could manage better with a few free apps and Linux servers. But to this point at <700 clients I haven't needed it and I will be looking into that in the future.
Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nash Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:04 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Backend systems Nice Shane... How about a server with no NIC. Now THAT would be a secure server, mostly. But what if a user got to the keyboard? Pull the power supply, now they'll surely not be able to break in... WAIT! There's still data on the hard drive! Better erase that... Dude, this is meant to be in jest, and to make a point. I don't currently run any Windows servers due to the engineer that we had in our office (which we now don't have so we have to rely on outside consultants for Linux expertise). But I ran on them for the first 7 years with our mail server, web server, DNS servers, etc. Anyway... Flame on about Windows servers, people, but the small business world runs on them. For those of you who own your WISPs and don't know anything about servers, don't listen to sensational hype. Take a sensible and tactical approach and do what's right for your business. Any server is just a tool. Pluses & minuses. You have to do a cost/benefit analysis with a server just as you would which kind of radio to use in the field, or who to hire to answer your phones. On 12/7/2010 7:47 AM, Shane MacDonald wrote: > I get scared when I hear "Windows" and "Software" in the same sentence. > Then when you add "Server" I usually run. > > Shane MacDonald > KP Performance Antennas > > > On 7-Dec-10, at 8:11 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote: > >> We used Rodopi. If you can handle the fact that its Windows and >> ASP.NET and MSSQL server, its OK. It works very well and very >> configurable. We had it set up on Windows Small Business Server, >> that is the version with MSSQL server. >> >> For what its worth. >> >> --Curtis >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
