Going to be registering a new website and wondering what the crowd usually goes with Linux or Windows servers?
Wondering whats the difference...
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andy206uk posted this at 21:31 — 3rd February 2005.
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Personally I'd pick a *nix based server anytime. If I had loads of moolah I'd probably fork out for something like an duel G5 Apple Xserve
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CptAwesome posted this at 22:13 — 3rd February 2005.
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I could be wrong, but I don't think that ASP is available on *Nix servers, but if you're using php, or neither then that bit doesn't matter.
I think with windows servers they will emulate chmod permissions that are defined on *Nix boxes, but I am not totally sure on that.
With any CGI or Perl scripts you'll have to set the first line to the C:\perl (or whatever) dir instead of the usual one that is for *NIX boxes.
The differences are subtle, even perfornmance is about the same I believe.
But if the difference is IIS vs Apache, then thats a different story, there are a lot more differences there.
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Greg K posted this at 22:20 — 3rd February 2005.
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There is (was) a program i think by chilisoft that let you do some asp on *nix servers, didn't have everything you'd get from MS. It wasn't free either..
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Renegade posted this at 01:04 — 4th February 2005.
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I think Linux servers are generally more cheaper than the Windows alternative.
andy206uk posted this at 15:35 — 4th February 2005.
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Why would someone want asp anyway? PHP is free, open-source and equally (if not more) powerful.
mairving posted this at 15:41 — 4th February 2005.
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I personally think that the performance of 'nix based servers(Linux, BSD) running PHP/MySQL is far better than those running Windows/ASP.NET . Prices are generally better too. It really depends on the host. 'Nix hosts tend to load more users on one machine than Windows because they can.
What it really comes down to is what you need to run. If you need to run apps that only run on SQL Server/ASP, then you will need a Windows Server. If you have PHP/MySQL apps, then go with 'nix. If you don't know which one you need, then go with a 'nix server since there is more free stuff, forums, albums, CMS's that are open-source (free) than there are on the Windows side.
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ovidiu posted this at 19:06 — 9th February 2005.
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Hello
I prefere *nix based server , it's more reliable that windows server from my point of view.
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ValleyPages posted this at 22:25 — 9th February 2005.
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not to mention more secure
ovidiu posted this at 07:27 — 10th February 2005.
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Right, I forgot the essential
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