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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: OS's and Web Servers Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 16:09:53 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3242C1D1.2B4@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32422003.10786130@news.ni.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Bill Henderson wrote: > > Hi everyone. The company that I work for is considering putting up its > own web site (now using an ISP for this) and I have been asked to look > into the positives and negatives of various OS's and web servers. I > have some experience with NT and have only recently started to play > with UNIX, so NT would have a slight edge ;) However, in the time > frame that we are talking I could come up to speed enough (I believe) > with UNIX so that possibility remains... Any input would be GREATLY > appreciated! Any links that might offer info in this area would also > be appreciated. Many thanks in advance! We have one of each where I work for staging purposes and testing, and I will only say this: the NT box needs a lot of maintenance and playing- with, while the FreeBSD box, with Apache, happily sits there and works. Just for grins, you might also want to run through the now-very-long thread that started with 'Unix too slow for a Web Server...' and follow the comments there. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |