Posted by phil-news-nospam on 05/08/06 05:02

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net> wrote:

|> Are you wanting to run the servers on Mac? Otherwise, which OS? You
|> did not mention your system platform.
|
| I develop the site on my MacOS X 10.4 system, so the ultimate hosting
| platform and toolset should not require Windows to run (e.g. that
| screens out .NET, ASP, IIS, and SQL Server, AFAIK). The hosting
| platform does not need to be a MacOS X Server system.
|
| It would be _nice_ to have a duplicate of the hosting environment
| (Apache, perl, php, MySQL) running on my MacOS X system, but not a hard
| requirement. I could setup a development area on the hosting
| environment for testing.

I know of a business that ran it's core server databases on Mac. And
that was before OS X. You could run the environment you describe on
OS X, BSD, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and others. Your choice.

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