Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/08/05 21:33

Chung Leong wrote:
> 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.
>

Yes, computer resources are cheap. But maintenance becomes expensive
when you need two or three Windows machines to do the same job one Linux
machine can do. Windows is good - but quite frankly it's a resource
hog. As long as your web site isn't very busy, Windows will do just
fine. However, if your site gets busy, you'll find Windows will run out
of resources much faster than Linux will.

I understand hiring a Linux guy is out of the question. That's why I
suggested getting a Linux machine in house and let your people play with
it. It's a great way for them to learn Linux in their spare time (or
when they just need a break from programming). Get a couple of good
books and let them go at it. Even if they crash the machine, it's only
a test machine, after all (warning - do NOT do "rm -R /"!).

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