Re: Question about PHP on Win2k Advanced Server

Hi, FastCGI provides the best reliability on Windows. It's as close to 99.99% as you can get. Zend has a commercial windows enabler built on FastCGI at http://zend.com There is also a free FastCGI installer at http://php.weblogs.com/easywindows which i wrote. Regards, John "Anthony M. Saffer" <anthonysaffer@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:008f01c42306$0fe10e80$63e6b8d1@saffer1... > Hello Everyone, > > I'm currently working on an application for a social service agency and I > was writing it with a LAMP target. I was informed on yesterday that LAMP > will not be the target but rather Win2k Advanced Server. I thought "no > problem" since I know that PHP can run on both Linux and Windows and figured > my application would be fine. But then, after doing some research, I found > that PHP seems to not be terribly reliable on Windows and it gave me pause. > This application MUST have a near 24/7 uptime and I cannot afford to have > PHP crashing in the middle of things. So, I am seriously considering using > ASP to do this since 1) it's native to Windows and stable and 2) it's > tightly integrated. > > What does everyone think of PHP on Windows? IS it stable enough to be nearly > 100% reliable? What are the problems with using PHP on Windows? > > Thanks, > Anthony M. Saffer