I would consider buying a 2xP4 server and running Linux. You can't beat the price, and I have been able to get unbelievable performance out of Intel + Linux, especially with IBM's JVM. The other nice thing about going with Intel is that your box is easily repurposed as a Windows server if necessary. If you get the right hardware, you can even just pull out the drives with Linux installed and replace them with drives with Windows installed and go back and forth as necessary. If only we could get our hands on OS X for Intel.
Christian On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 02:50 PM, Drew Harris wrote: > I am having a dilemma and would appreciate some feedback. > I need to purchase a new web server for an existing job... And to > repurpose > when the job is over. > I am an Oracle guy, and an apple guy... So now that Oracle 9i is > offered and > supported natively on Mac OS X I am very happy. > However, I also have been using CF for so long now for all my > applications > it has become a crutch in some ways. > I do all my coding on my PowerBook in DWMX. > I love Apple products and would love to use my mac for everything. > I realize there is a hack to port CF to OSX, however since it can not > yet > run on Apache there, and a few other bugs, I am reluctant to purchase > the > Xserve for the job as I would like to do (even though I could run a W2K > server in VPC6). > > The server will be repurposed as my main webserver/application server > after > the initial project and I would buy an Xserve in an instant if I knew > there > was a Mac release of CF around the corner. > > Perhaps if CFMX did not run the way I needed it to natively (via the > hack) > in OSX, I would think it would run ok in VPC6 W2K... With the dual > 1ghz g4 > processors and 2GB of RAM. > > Any thoughts or comments? > -Drew Harris > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
