Posted by Chung Leong on 09/08/05 00:20

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> The reason I say this is - Windows makes a decent desktop system. But
> it has a large amount of unnecessary overhead. For instance, my VPS has
> 128K of RAM - and I'm not using all of it. I have 3GB of disk space -
> but I'm only using a little over 1GB for the actual system. And
> response time is great.

Computing resource is cheap, while human resource is expensive.
Decisions are sometimes therefore made with greater regards to the
latter--that's the point I was trying to make. Windows might not be the
best OS for web hosting, but hiring a Linux/Unix guy was out of the
question.

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