NYCPHP Meetup

[Justin Dearing]

For talking to MS SQL server, as Hans is, (which IMHO is superior to MySQL
and Postgres for performance, but not postgres for features) it makes sense
to use windows. While apache runs on windows easy enough, IIS "just works"
on windows.



On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jake McGraw <jmcgraw1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:17 AM, David Krings <ramons at gmx.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Just being curious and sorry for digressing, but which requirements
> would
> >>> that be? Running commodity tasks on the most expensive server OS with
> the
> >>> worst web server available?
> >
> > With an attitude like that, businesses must be busting down your door
> > begging you to migrate them from ASP.NET on IIS to PHP.
> > This is 2010, and windows doesn't suck like it used to. Yes I'll there is
> no
> > "I will do all the work myself because I have no cash and plenty of time"
> > option for windows, so you're paying $469 for your server OS minimum
> > (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/pricing.aspx).
> However,
> > unless you are a one man shop running one server and one workstation, you
> > probably have some sort of Technet subscription, or the equivalent for
> your
> > OS.
>
> PHP on IIS will get better soon, see:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/25/dziuba_microsoft_php/
>
> However, why anyone would choose any part of the MS stack to host
> their LAMP app is beyond me. Ubuntu Server w/ LAMP takes about 20
> minutes to install and works wonderfully out of the box is free and
> incredibly well maintained.
>
> - jake
>
> > Justin
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