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Chris Wilson

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Really? What's the major problem?

I have FreeBSD UNIX servers that run very heavy MySQL web apps and don't EVER need rebooting. Ever.

They use less resources and simply work.

 

Microsoft on the other hand....Grooooan.

The only servers I ever have trouble are MS Windows servers. Twice as many resources erquired and brought to their knees very easily.

Don't get me wrong, MS stuff is fine for desktop use and small bus apps with shiny buttons and misleading descriptions and poor logging... but not for dependable Internet servers. I'm sure the MCSE crew et al will argue fiercely (you should hear me and my mate!)..but that's only because most of them haven't given the time to understand UNIX and appreciate its purity and simplicity.

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I have FreeBSD UNIX servers that run very heavy MySQL web apps and don't EVER need rebooting. Ever.

They use less resources and simply work.

 

Microsoft on the other hand....Grooooan.

The only servers I ever have trouble are MS Windows servers. Twice as many resources erquired and brought to their knees very easily.

Don't get me wrong, MS stuff is fine for desktop use and small bus apps with shiny buttons and misleading descriptions and poor logging... but not for dependable Internet servers. I'm sure the MCSE crew et al will argue fiercely (you should hear me and my mate!)..but that's only because most of them haven't given the time to understand UNIX and appreciate its purity and simplicity.

 

Heh. My experience is that Linux is fine up until it decides to screw up, at which point it becomes a total nightmare. Plus getting the sodding thing to work can be a PITA - having nightmares at the moment with Fedora and VMWare. Besides, we talking about Linux, BSD or Unix? As for not being usable as dependable internet servers, heh, beg to differ.

 

It's horses for courses - if you want to run something like this forum, then Linux all the way. If you want to make use of ASP or SQL2000/2005 then use Windows. Of more concern is the suggestion of MySQL as as a serious database system!

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Besides, we talking about Linux, BSD or Unix?

FreeBSD for me. It's nothing to do with Linux which essentially is just a kernel that people randomly chuck extra software at to create distributions.

 

FreeBSD is very carefully monitored and put together as a whole package. It means things go along slower, but its very very secure and stable. It will be interesting to see how DragonFlyBSD turns out as they branched off from FreeBSD as they disagreed on the SMP method used in FreeBSD6.

 

As for not being usable as dependable internet servers, heh, beg to differ.

;)

To be fair I have a couple of Win2k IIS servers with SQL Server and I don't hear much out of them apart from when a patch comes out. It's the SBS stuff that gives me the hassle and the difficult and often sketchy logging. I LOVE being able to see EXACTLY what FreeBSD is doing in all the logs etc.

It's horses for courses - if you want to run something like this forum, then Linux all the way. If you want to make use of ASP or SQL2000/2005 then use Windows. Of more concern is the suggestion of MySQL as as a serious database system!

I've just installed SQL2005 and looking forward to playing with it. The install routine so far signals good things. Using it with CRM3.0.

MySQL is making great advancements towards an enterprise class SQL server. It works for most applications and of course you can make more profit as you don't buy a license ;)

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