What is the most reliable and popular web server (hardware and software)?
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I often hear people say that IIS on Windows server is not reliable and not suitable for a big site. What is reliable and popular one? Does anyone know if there is any analysis/statistics done on different web server hardware and software?
TOMZ_KV
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I often hear people say that IIS on Windows server is not reliable and not suitable for a big site. What is reliable and popular one? Does anyone know if there is any analysis/statistics done on different web server hardware and software?
TOMZ_KV
Depends on many factors. Since everyone else will be answering your main question, I'm going to answer a related one. "What's the best personal web server?" My answer: Mbedthis AppWeb. It simply rocks. It is a small, high-performance, personal web server good for desktop implementations or SME businesses that don't need something like IIS or Apache. It supports SSL and PHP, among other things, and runs on numerous operating systems. I was creating and testing web pages and got tired of FrontPage PWS's lack of features. I didn't want to pay for IIS and Apache seemed quite complicated to setup right on Windows. I found AppWeb on Wikipedia and have been using it ever since, with much satisfaction. Anyone looking for a personal or small business web server should definitely consider AppWeb. It served me well. ;)
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BTW if anyone tells you IIS is not good for big sites; MySpace. You might not like MySpace but they do massive load* and it is all .NET and IIS. They gave a talk at Mix'06 and the primary issues were the same issues LAMP users face; software and hardware architecture. * Still way more than Facebook. Don't let Facebok fanboys mix you up, MySpace kicks their arse in every area including making money. OK, OK, except growth. Facebook has better growth but it will top-out just like MySpace has. And they still won't be making any money.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
"MySpace kicks their arse in every area including making money." (Paul Watson) What are you talking about Paul? Coming from an application developer, that statement is hard to believe. I remember when MySpace was just cluttered pages full of user-submitted HTML, with not much in line of extra features. I didn't use it for chat much because I couldn't integrate it well with everything else like I do email and IM. Facebook took an alternative approach with their popular API and tried to create a more open platform for developers. The result was that, when I first checked it out, there were tools for doing almost everything with my FaceBook account. I often didn't even have to visit the facebook site! MySpace and Facebook have both come a long way since then. MySpace is certainly more popular and successful, but I think Facebook is still better from developer's standpoint. MySpace has followed their lead a bit, and it would be great to see them do more in that area. Then, I might be a MySpace fanbois. Maybe...
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"MySpace kicks their arse in every area including making money." (Paul Watson) What are you talking about Paul? Coming from an application developer, that statement is hard to believe. I remember when MySpace was just cluttered pages full of user-submitted HTML, with not much in line of extra features. I didn't use it for chat much because I couldn't integrate it well with everything else like I do email and IM. Facebook took an alternative approach with their popular API and tried to create a more open platform for developers. The result was that, when I first checked it out, there were tools for doing almost everything with my FaceBook account. I often didn't even have to visit the facebook site! MySpace and Facebook have both come a long way since then. MySpace is certainly more popular and successful, but I think Facebook is still better from developer's standpoint. MySpace has followed their lead a bit, and it would be great to see them do more in that area. Then, I might be a MySpace fanbois. Maybe...
I was talking from a performance point of view (the point of this thread.) Unique visitors, page impressions etc. Frankly, I think they both suck. Facebook sucks a little bit less.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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I was talking from a performance point of view (the point of this thread.) Unique visitors, page impressions etc. Frankly, I think they both suck. Facebook sucks a little bit less.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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