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Security updates and software updates force you to restart the server, and that is the full reboot, you are not just stoping and starting the server, you are bringing the box down. When it comes back up you will then have to check that all of the services are running and operating correctly. That is painful. This could be 5 minutes of downtime, which depending on what you are hosting can be a problem. That is the problem when you choose windows. IIS tends to be a bit slower to work with, everything is a GUI so when you are attempting to do a repetitive task it will take a bit longer. This is out of the ordinary, but I had to register 5k domain names through IIS and to register a name you normally have to use a 10 step GUI. I got past this by having a script create the resultant file, but you then still had to use the GUI to actually register the domain with the server (10 steps became 2) but that was still about 25,000 button clicks total to setup all these domains. This might be better now, this was back in 2000. The next issue is that when you use windows you have to give up a good amount of resources since you are running in a GUI environment. When running on a *nix varient you tend not to be in a GUI environment thus increase the performance you can get out of the same hardware. The standard anagram is LAMP not WIMP. This is because (li)nix, apache, php and mysql just fit so well together, it is free and stable. You do not get the same out of windows and IIS. Dan @ [url=http://www.codetown.org]Code Town[/url]
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