OT Apache vs IIS

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Confusious (Richard Hane) say:
> I have a general question for those of you running filepro utilizing
> web page front ends on a Windows system.  Please lets not make this a
> discussion of Windows versus Linux, it's not an option here.
>
>   We are going to be running some filepro apps with html front ends on
>   an intranet on Windows 2003 servers.  The question... which would be
>   better Apache or using IIS which comes with the Windows.
>
>   Please respond off list as to not tie up bandwidth if you feel this is
>   really off topic.

I hate to say it, but go with IIS.

I've had issues with Apache on Windows.

For one, it's flat-out stated in the Apache docs that it's not optimised
for Windows.  I wouldn't really care so much, BUT...

In tests here, the client OS appeared to matter.  For instance, I had
Apache on a Windows 2000 Professional server.  When my client used to be
Win98se, I'd get fantastic throughput.  When I updated the client to
Windows 2000 Professional, my throughput dropped through the floor.  Same
network, same server OS, same Apache, same GetRight version at the time.
Only difference was literally the client OS.

And you do -not- want that kind of throughput, trust me.  It was really
slow for whatever reason.  I took about six or seven tries at isolating the
cause further and could not.  Since I was really only wanting it to queue
up file transfers from a directory into GetRight on my system rather than
rely on SMB/CIFS, which was breaking due to network outages (where GetRight
would retry) and which also could throttle the speed down to less than my
complete bandwidth but still wayyyyy higher than I got with the 2000/2000
combination, it wasn't worth the cost/effort to me to keep trying.

I hate IIS with a passion.  For a GUI, it's far harder (IMHO) to actually
configure.  It has numerous quirks (like make sure you set the user for any
CGI to the same user as runs filePro if you're doing CGI work) that aren't
obvious.  But it will perform better and more consistently on its own
platform.  For that reason, I say stick with IIS on Windows.

mark->
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