Re: Server for PHP and ASP (and MySQL) ??

Hi, On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:50:19 -0500, hmbower@cogeco.ca (H Marc Bower) wrote: >Perhaps the better solution is to move to a somewhat... newer O/S? :) Yes, that would be good, but the cheapest I have seen (for example) W2K Pro, is AUD $300, and that's about $300 more than I have. :( >I >have a P3-450 that I do testing on, using PHP, ASP, and mySQL and it's run >both Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 Server at various times. If all you're >doing is serving up webpages, that doesn't suck up much in the way of >resources and you should be alright. If your computer is less powerful than >that, I dunno. I had XP Pro running on a P166 at one point, but it was kind >of scary. :) The computer is only a P2-350 and it's very sluggish, there is _so_ much software on it, and very little disk space. Ideally, I'd like to setup a *nix box and use that for PHP/MySQL, with say Apache,etc, but I don't think there is any way I could also use that for the ASP work. The reason why I want a "local" web server is it saves a lot of development/testing time to get about 90% of a project done and tested locally, rather than having to (for example) modify 2 lines of code, FTP the files to the website/s, test it, change the code again, upload, etc,etc, what a real pain it is. Also, doing all this locally saves a lot on bandwidth, so that great (less $$), and if the net is down, I can still keep doing development/testing work. So, it seems I'm 'stuck' with a Win box for the ASP stuff, but would be better off with even using my old P-100 with 64Mb ram as a *nix web server, to be used for all the PHP/MySQL development work. Thanks, Peter