On 3/19/07, Angelo Zanetti <angelo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
HI all. I would like some honest answers and if you have any experience with problems or no problems running PHP on a windows server. Basically we are interested to know if there are any problems/security issues/stability issues/performance issues or any other issues running a production site (big live site) on a windows server. Im assuming it will be running IIS. The site is very important and any issues will hamper the functionality and accessibility of the site. All your responses will be greatly appreciated. TIA Angelo --
I was running PHP under windows, but not with IIS, i used Apache. After some time i thought i might wanted to try linux, and since that i didn't even thought about getting back. First of all is that it is a lot more secure, a lot of scripts don't do any harm on a normal configured linux server, while they do as running on a microsoft server, because php has more rights in windows (not to mention my server, running PHP as root...) and stability is a lot better, my linux server can handle more connections at the same time (multitasking is better on linux) and i noted the difference in RAM usage. On the other side i don't see any reason why to run windows on it. The most important reasion was that microsoft could execute ASP code, but since the coming of mono (mono-project.org), it is also possible to use ASP code on a linux server running apache. If you have things that require windows, go for a windows server, if not, go for LAMP. maybe with perl, cgi, and asp support. Tijnema
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