well said. I agree Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Server" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 6:22 PM Subject: RE: Linux vs Windows for CF Server?
> > I have to agree. CF5 on Windows was and is far more stable than CF7 > > Having run what was several huge sites on CF 4.5, 5 MX 6 and 6.1 all on > Windows 2000 and 2003 all on IIS, I have no idea why you would think that... > were looking at running MX 7 at the moment > > In my last employ, we were running 4 CF Servers in a load balanced array on > CF 5 and they were hell. Forever falling over crashing and requiring a > reboot. We eventually moved to CFMX 6.0 and that too was a pig but since we > updated to 6.1 we experienced few if at all any problems.... When I left, > the clustered SQL server setup has an uptime approaching 600 days per server > on W2k and our webservers were approaching 200 days uptime each. For me, I'd > say that those sorts of uptimes are more than acceptible in a production > environment. > > My experience with the stability of a Windows server has led me to believe > that it is generally down to the competence of the admin and their approach > to solving issues that may arise. As my competency and knowledge of Windows > rose, so did my uptimes it is that simple. > > Making a Windows box stable involves knowing that an NT technology based box > can in effect be running upto 5 operating systems in and of itself (NTVDM, > Posix, Win32, OS2 and good old 16-bit WOW) and knowing how to turn these off > leaving just the ones that you need (Win32). Also turning off all > unnecessary services goes a very long way to stabilising a server as does > hardening and optimising the TCP/IP stack. > > Windows gets a bad name because it is open out of the box... Being open > isn't that big an offence really. Unleashing the open box onto the Internet > is.... > > When you are approaching CFMX running on Windows then a good knowledge of > different JVM architectures and how to tweak them for best effect is useful. > I've tested running CF on several vendors JVMs and benchmarked them all > under simulated heavy load to ensure that we are getting the best out of the > technilogy that we can. > > To sum up, Windows isn't any more or less stable than any other OS if it is > configured and managed correctly and just because it has a nice easy GUI > doesn't mean that it is nice and easy to get it right in fact most of the > devil in configuring a Windows box is at the command line and in the > registry editor... After that, the GUI is a nice to have :) > > Paul > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Stay Ahead of Hackers - Download ZoneAlarm Pro http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=65 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:10:5320 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/10 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:10 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.10 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
