RE: Coldfusion vs ... Oh dear!

I agree with that.  Personally, I write PHP on my Windows 2000 machine
running Apache, and upload to a Unix server.  Haven't had any problems so
far.

Tim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Data Driven Design
> Sent: 11 August 2001 13:01
> To: tim booker; 'Mike Kear'; klaas(at)gracegraphics.be;
> hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: Coldfusion vs ... Oh dear!
>
>
> I wanna play too! I've been watching this thread and I think
> it's about time
> somebody mentioned PHP. I haven't used Cold Fusion, but I
> used to code ASP
> and there's nothing in the world that could make me go back.
> PHP is just
> better. This whole thread does bring up one question for me though?
>
> Why would you host a site on NT?
>     . MUCH more expensive
>     . MUCH less reliable
>
> To me hosting on NT is doing your clients a great injustice.
> The only way to
> do it right is to have a load balanced farm of servers
> because you need to
> reboot 2 or 3 nodes every morning. But by the same token if
> you spent the
> same amount of money of a load balanced farm of UNIX servers,
> besides having
> quite a few more machines, you'd spend less time rebooting them.
>
> However if you're forced to use NT by some unrightable wrong,
> PHP performs
> quite nicely there and if you move your site to a UNIX server
> you'll have
> almost no code changes. If performance is an issue then I
> don't see where
> you'd have any choice. Run your own benchmarks and see for
> yourself. There's
> no way for PHP to lose.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tim booker" <timbooker(at)btinternet.com>
> To: "'Mike Kear'" <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>; <klaas(at)gracegraphics.be>;
> <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 6:08 PM
> Subject: RE: Coldfusion vs ... Oh dear!
>
>
> > So where does PHP come into the picture?
> >
>
>

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