MS vs UNIX
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- benversion
Does anyone have any statistics about the number of websites on MS servers compared with those on UNIX systems?
Any URLs / stats / graphs would be good. Thanks.
- unknown0
i predict this thread turning into an asp vs php arguement in 3-2-1
- benversion0
yeah could do but wasn't intended that way. I need some info to pass on to a client and I need to check that my info regarding Unix is correct.
- davetufts0
Netcraft does monthy reports (mostly on server software but i'm sure there's also OS data somewhere on their site).
May Report:
http://news.netcraft.com/archive…Apache's running 62% of the sites on the net. MS IIS 28%.
Longest uptimes are all UNIX
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/to…...and yes, PHP is better than ASP.
- benversion0
thanks davetufts - good useful
stuff!
- davetufts0
On Netcraft's site, you can also check what other sites are running:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/gr…
for the site in your profile, it says IIS 5 on Win2K --- make the switch to Unix, preferrably FreeBSD, and you will be enlightened
- unknown0
bah, use whatever works for you. i've hosted sites on both platforms, and developed in ASP and PHP and can say that for my purposes neither out performs the other enough to make either one necessarily better than the other. aside from cost, unix is typically cheaper on hosting plans.
- sparker0
i'm sorry then, but you don't know enough about the technology you build for if you don't know even the obvious differences and performance benchmarks for servers.
all web designers should know how each server type performs and what each's strengths and weaknesses are.
iis is the most insecure server on the market. a kid with a butterknife and some cheese could hack one...especially since most people who choose iis for the web boxes are the types who don't know what their doing with servers and don't apply patches, which microsoft is poor to alert it's customers of any security problem.
both work, but i wouldn't host my system critical data on a ms server if i had the choice.
- unknown0
if i were my own host.. i would be inclined to agree with you. i have my sites hosted, and no matter what platform, a server is only as good as it's sys admin. cheers if you know all the technical specs of every server you work on... i'm sure it helps. i garauntee that about 90% of the designer developers in here know very little or nothing about the "performance benchmarks" of individual servers. so i'm sorry i and alot of other people don't meet your standards for "all web designers".
PS: If you don't have a site to show us, then why list it in your profile?
- mitsu0
php ownz asp
raaar!
- unknown0
wha? mitsu, i always thought you were mr asp... at least i thought i remembered you posting in favor of asp on different threads. I can do both, seems most of the freelance gigs i get my hands on are wanting php, but i learned asp first and it's pretty much what i do all day at my full time gig. which is why my site is in asp. but whatever, as i said before, a server is only as good as it's admin.
- mitsu0
hehe, just seeing if i could get mikes attention. ;)
i'm actually impartial. either works fine for me.