Re: REPRASED: Supported platforms comparison

Linux is not the most OS running web servers. From netcraft.com: Microsoft Windows has a significantly higher share of the web when one counts by computer, rather than by host, as in the conventional Web Server Survey. The survey shows 49.6% of the computers running the web are Windows based. As some of the 3% of computers not identified by the Netcraft operating system detector will in reality be Windows systems, despite some uncertainty due to the survey's error margins, it would be fair to say half of public Web Servers world-wide are run on Microsoft operating systems. Although Apache runs more sites than Windows, Apache is heavily deployed at hosting companies and ISPs who strive to run as many sites as possible on a single computer to save costs. Windows is most popular with end-user and self hosted sites, where the host to computer ratio is much smaller. Linux is the second most commonly used operating system. Linux has been consistently gaining share since our analysis started, but interestingly not significantly to Windows detriment. Operating systems which have lost share have been Solaris and other proprietary operating systems, and to a smaller degree BSD operating systems. Apache is th predominat web server, that's true. -- Julio Nobrega. Um dia eu chego lá: http://sourceforge.net/projects/toca "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote in message news:000c01c152bc$6f2353c0$c801a8c0@Lynchux100... > Linux/Apache is the best bet. > > You might gain a few cycles from fancier hardware -- But Linux/Apache is by > far the most used and therefore tested and therefore stable. > > Is it worth risking meltdown for a 5% performance gain? > > Solve performance with good design and clustering. > > -- > WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use > ceo@l-i-e.com > Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Marco Fioretti <m.fioretti@inwind.it> > To: <ceo@l-i-e.com>; phplist <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:08 AM > Subject: [PHP] REPRASED: Supported platforms comparison > > > > After the links in http://php.net/FAQ.php, a Google search > > ought to turn > up > > a few comparison pages. > > > > I had already tried both ways, without success. I have found a lot of > places with benchmarks of PHP accessing different databases on the same > server/os pair, (PHP + Oracle = X queries/second, PHP + MySQL = Y > queries/sec, etc...), but that's not what I was looking for. > > Maybe I shoud have phrased the original question like this: > > 1) assume you prepare one, heavy, HTML/PHP page (any combination of > includes, SQL stuff, math calculation, on the fly graphics, > whatever). > 2) Install it on as many as possible OS/WWW server combinations, > **always on the same hardware and PHP version** > 3) which OS/server pair will serve the more hits per second, i.e. > make PHP perform better? > > Did anybody ever do this? Could anybody make an educated guess about > what the winner would be, and for which reasons? > > TIA, > Marco Fioretti > ORIGINAL MESSAGE > > > > Hello, > > > > I am tryng to learn more about PHP support on different > > OS/HTTP server combinations > > > > I have read the FAQ and manual, and know which platforms > > PHP runs on, but am looking for things like: > > > > performance comparison (same PHP release on different OS/servers...) > > platform specific configuration tools > > " " " " mailing list/websites > > licensing (free on Linux/pay on windows) > > anything else on these lines > > > > Both personal experience and pointer to online material are higly welcome. > > > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > Marco > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >