I with Russ on this one. I came to work here and it was a windows only shop as of right now I have migrated alot over to RH4 with apache. I also have Apache on windows and we are super impressed with its functionality.
One of the big concerns on moving over to Linux was capitalization Apache mod_speling took care of that :) mod_rewrite is your friend especially for Hardware load balancing Eric Haskins Rooms To Go On 10/27/06, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1. The things I can do because of mod_rewrite and mod_proxy alone are > worth using apache. IIS should technically be faster because it runs as a > kernel process, I believe, but these days it doesn't matter. As was said > many times, both apache and IIS can saturate the network connection using > any recent pc. The performance is really going to depend on the backend > tool you use, and if you don't use .NET, there is no point running IIS. > Apache is FAR more configurable, and has a lot more FREE modules that let > you do amazing things. > > For example: Let say you want to have your development server available > externally, over port 80. Your isp blocks port 80. How would you solve > this with IIS? With apache you can just set up a virtual site on your > production server and have it proxy the content from your dev server over > a > different port. > > Russ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:54 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: URL for CF7 Multi-Server configurations > > > > I prefer Apache for a lot of reasons, but I've never done any > > benchmarking and can't say with any certainty whether it's faster. I > > mostly know that it's FAR more extensible and configurable and that > > makes my life much easier. > > > > On 10/27/06, Dave Hatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Apache on a Win Box is faster than IIS6? Is that really true? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 1:19 AM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Re: URL for CF7 Multi-Server configurations > > > > > > I also find Apache is faster and more reliable. We use IIS at our > > company > > > but that is due to our links with Microsoft, I would happily move to > > Apache > > > if I could! > > > > > > I run both locally for testing etc. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258315 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
