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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