Best Server Software??? in Webmasters and Developers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r8712794 en Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:01:41 EDT Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:01:41 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8719158 justin : or maybe microsoft approached them with a deal, "too good to pass up", in order to boost IIS mindshare, and they ignored the moans from their sysadmin guys and went with it. And their sysadmin guys left or could not provide the kind of stability that they wanted.

just a theory.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8719158 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 20:00:14 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8719132 devrandom :
said by justin See Profile:
I think this comment from netcraft is very funny:

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During 2001 and the first half of 2002 several companies hosting very large numbers of hostnames including Webjump, Namezero, Homestead, register.com and Network Solutions migrated to Microsoft-IIS.

Subsequently these businesses have either failed, significantly changed their business model, or reverted to their previous platform, and Microsoft-IIS share is now in line with its long term pre-summer 2001 level of around 20%.


(my emphasis).


Must have all thought Apache was too complex (right) to operate, and was taking them too much money, so they spent all their money switching back to IIS and just went belly up.

The ones who survived are now scurrying along now and barely keep up with those who chose to run Apache.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8719132 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:57:59 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8718322 jvalal : Apache is too hard for me to maintain and set up. I want something easy.

E-smith is Nix based, but the interface sucks and I really have no clue why it isn't working.

I posed on the e-smith board site twice with no resolutions posted in reply..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8718322 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:47:34 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8718173 justin : I think this comment from netcraft is very funny:

quote:
During 2001 and the first half of 2002 several companies hosting very large numbers of hostnames including Webjump, Namezero, Homestead, register.com and Network Solutions migrated to Microsoft-IIS.

Subsequently these businesses have either failed, significantly changed their business model, or reverted to their previous platform, and Microsoft-IIS share is now in line with its long term pre-summer 2001 level of around 20%.


(my emphasis).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8718173 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:32:25 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8718169 jvalal : I guess I am thinking something like the MANDRAKE server. Easy interface, etc.

Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8718169 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:31:44 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8717493 morph3ous : Apache runs on *NIX and it also runs on Windows. It is a great server. I highly recommend running on a *NIX os as it is rock solid that way.

Apache works great with PHP, Perl, and most other scripting languages. There are also all sorts of different "plugins" (wrong word, is the correct word modules?) for it that allow you to do almost anything.

As someone said above, the config reequires editing some config files, but there is tons of helpful information on the net.
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said by freerock See Profile:
e-smith is an OS, so suggesting apache isn't going to help.

Isn't it based on Linux? I saw it listed on linuxiso.org so I figured it was.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8716116 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:43:59 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8716051 freerock : e-smith is an OS, so suggesting apache isn't going to help.

Smoothwall might be an alternative, but you are probably better of figuring out why networking no longer works. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8716051 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 14:37:35 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8714398 klobb : Apache hands down.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8714398 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 11:18:04 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8713856 jayco437 : How about »www.apache.org/. Almost two thirds of the net seems to prefer using it: »news.netcraft.com/archives/web_s···vey.html

Setup isn't entirely trivial, but then again its not that hard once you know what you're doing.
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Ok...I'm outta flames at the moment, so just go back and re-read all the other flames from your other posts... -- =\ coma]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8713856 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:39:19 EDT Re: Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8713001 wmmc7 : Nevermind, the one i was going to link too no longer has one, hmmm.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8713001 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 03:18:11 EDT Best Server Software??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8712794 jvalal : Hi, I used to use e-smith as my FREE server software, but when I upgraded to the new version I am not able to get an internet connection. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8712794 Sun, 07 Dec 2003 02:22:54 EDT