On Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:55pm, "Bernd Eidenschink" <[email protected]> said: > Even using and relying on several AOL- and Naviservers for years now I cannot > get used to the technical superiority discussions... It is not about technical superiority. No matter how hard you try, AOLserver will still run rings around a front-end PHP server. So you need twice the hardware. Twice the hardware is twice the manufacturing, twice the power consumption, twice the cooling.
In short: AOLserver is better for the environment. If you run anything other than AOLserver, YOU HATE THE EARTH! It's why Greenpeace uses OpenACS! Seriously though, you can make a succesful service on any platform. That doesn't mean the Twitter boys couldn't have saved themselves a whole lot of sleepness nights by going with a better architecture initially, instead of the hard to scale flavor of the month. One of the most important reasons those platforms are more popular is because they all run in Apache and install with one tick of a box or "apt-get/yum" command, as well as working in large virtual hosting environment. (i.e.: cheap web hosts) Moving AOLserver to run inside Apache as a module would be a great step to making it more accesible and popular. Bas. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[email protected]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
