Posted by Alan Silver on 08/23/07 14:59

In article <4-2dnbqiVO9FGlDbnZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@comcast.com>, Jerry Stuckle
<jstucklex@attglobal.net> writes
>Alan Silver wrote:
>> In article <46cc5b59$0$11218$6e1ede2f@read.cnntp.org>, gosha bine
>><stereofrog@gmail.com> writes
>>> .htaccess and mod_rewrite work just fine in windows version of
>>>apache. Are you using apache?
>> Nope, using IIS, and there are loads of ASP.NET sites already there,
>>so I wouldn't even think of switching servers now.
>> Thanks anyway
>>
>
>That's the difference. I've got one vps on Windows. All the rest are
>Linux. The Windows VPS requires 4x the memory, 50% faster CPU - and
>over twice the monthly cost of the Linux servers to do the same job.
>And even then it's slower.
>
>We're in the process of converting the last customer from ASP to PHP
>now. Then even that one will be gone.

Horses for course I suppose. I'm very happy with my current set up. I
run my own server, so cost isn't an issue, and I'm very happy with IIS
and ASP.NET. I haven't used PHP enough to compare, so I'm not saying
ASP.NET is better, just that I'm very happy with it.

Thanks for the reply.

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Alan Silver
(anything added below this line is nothing to do with me)

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