> -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:25 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Apache config > > > > I don't have anything against learning new things, but I don't care at all > for the evangelism. If someone says "Apache beats the pants off IIS, but > it > has a learning curve", they should be prepared to accept the obvious > response that ease of use has value. All of the arguments that you've made > against IIS are the same sort of arguments people generally make against > CF, > and if CF has proven anything, it's the value of ease of use. >
I agree that CF's value is ease of use, but I also think it's power. Power to be extended through Java and to a lesser degree C++. Powerful features that are not available with ASP.NET or PHP. Powerful enterprise features such as session replication. I will give you that IIS has easy management. I think we've agreed that it's the only place where IIS outshines apache. Apache is more configurable and has more features then IIS. Have you seen the load balancing features in the 2.x versions? You can actually use Apache to do load balancing, instead of having a hardware load balancer. Recently, I set up a cluster of CF servers. We used a hardware load balancer and in order to make health checks work properly while having session replication enabled I had to make changes to the Apache jrun connector. It's a good thing that Adobe decided to provide the source for it. Even though it took me a while, I was able to make the necessary changes, and compile the apache module and make it work as it should. This would not have been an option for IIS, as Adobe doesn't provide the source for the connector. I think the bottom line is this. If you are coming into an MS heavy environment that already uses IIS, switching to apache is likely not an option. If you are just starting out in managing web servers, apache will prove more hassle then its worth. If you are, however, a seasoned web developer/server administrator and you have a chance to set up a new environment (as I did some time ago), then Apache is probably the best choice for you. It's also likely the best choice if you are running a development environment on an XP machine. We are, after all, programmers. We should not be afraid of doing a little coding to configure our web server. If we preferred nice pretty GUI's, we'd probably be all coding Visual Basic. Russ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:267329 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
