justin
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Re: Best Server Software???
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. |
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devrandom
I got a pot, full of random stuff here
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join:2003-06-28
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said by 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).
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. |
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jvalal
Chonk
join:2002-06-14
Seattle, WA
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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.. |
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justin
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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). |
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jvalal
Chonk
join:2002-06-14
Seattle, WA | reply to morph3ous
I guess I am thinking something like the MANDRAKE server. Easy interface, etc.
Thanks |
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morph3ous
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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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freerock
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New York, NY | reply to klobb
yes, it uses the linux kernel. |
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klobb
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said by freerock :
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. |
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freerock
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New York, NY | reply to klobb
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. |
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klobb
join:2000-10-06 | reply to jvalal
Apache hands down. |
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jayco437
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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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wmmc7
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Washougal, WA
1 edit | reply to jvalal
Nevermind, the one i was going to link too no longer has one, hmmm. |
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jvalal
Chonk
join:2002-06-14
Seattle, WA | 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. |
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