Re: REPRASED: Supported platforms comparison

I'm new to PHP but not to web-serving, hosting 3 webservers for a UK University project. The 3 servers are: NT (IIS4), MacOS (WebStar2) and LinuxPPC (Apache). I also run NT (Apache) on my development laptop. NT and Mac were just soooooo easy to set up, Linux was a pure pain, though its has a good support community, helping newbies getting started. I haven't use the Linux server for any serious hosting yet so I can't really comment on how duyrable it is. NT is solid (after 1 year, it has crashed 0 times) but because its MS it attracts all kinds of attacks from michievous hackers. The Mac, on the other hand, well, it is very easy to forget its there. We've been running the Mac the longest (6+years and although the platform is prone to crashing, its more due to using other apps on it rather than it acting as a server. I have to balance ease of setup and operation with all the other things I have to do as I am the sole tecchie on the project, and I'm not even a tecchie as the skills which got me the job in the first place were ddeply rooted in typesetting and DTP! I've migrated my skills over the years and now its almost all either business analysis or development, so I just want to forget about which platform is best and get on with it. Just my 2c. George P in Edinburgh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason G." <blair@nb.net> To: "Marco Fioretti" <m.fioretti@inwind.it>; "phplist" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] REPRASED: Supported platforms comparison > Plus, one would not have to pay $58349.99 for M$ products! > > At 09:17 AM 10/12/2001 +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote: > > > 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. > >..... > > > Windows is most popular with end-user and > > > self hosted sites, where the host to computer ratio is much smaller. > > > > > > >or, in other words, windows is so inefficient that the Net as it is > >today would require much less hosts, i.e. cost much less, if it > >disappeared, right? > > > >Sorry, I know perfectly that this is on the flaming side and has > > nothing to do with my own original message, but the hunch was too good > >to give it up... > > > > Ciao, > > > > Marco Fioretti > >postingcouldn't resist > > > > > >-- > >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 > > > -- > 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com