OK, I not a Microsoft supporter (Hey, I program in Delphi :-) but I haven't
had the time or resource to sit down and learn more about linux that I
already know. I agree that NT security (sorry, oxymoronic) is crap but it's
a system most of the world knows about. The ISAPI stuff being written is in
for in house servers, which allows greater control over access and setup and
makes data access easy, and delphi is nice allowing coversion to CGI if
necessary. I can churn out some e-com stuff pretty damn fast. If I still
wanted to use NT but not IIS, what suggestion would you make for a http
server?
Tony Sinclair
-----Original Message-----
From: Nic Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 22 May 2000 11:42
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Accessing The Registry
> > First rule of web hosting: NEVER EVER allow ISAPI dll's.
> Yes, but do people sitting down & churning out a lovely web app
> know that?
They should - would you start writing your app before looking at where its
going to be hosted?
> It's not until they go to deploy the app & they get evil looks from web
> hosting services (or the bill for tele-housing a machine) that those DLL's
> start looking like a bad idea.
Yup, exactly.
> And even some of the known ones have backdoors or can leak memory to
> death...
dont I know it :) ASPMail used to be a good example of this.
> NT security <cough, cough>. I would hope that any NT machine running a IIs
> server that is exposed to the world has _everything_ locked down and that
> sites only have read/write access to there only directory
> structure. In the
> real world, I suspect most people just run IIs on a default setup which is
> not secure.
Exactly. BTW, sometime, try moving an IIS setup from machine A to machine B,
ie if the disk gets unusable (ie, NT has been on it for > 6 months), etc.
You can't. I've spent a week or so moving over 100+ sites by hand 'cos IIS
(and NT) doesn't have _any_ way to backup and restore its settings. Its not
in the registry - its in the "metabase", which can't be transported.
> Yeah, AFAIK, IIs market share is dropping which is quite amazing
> given that
> MS are pushing it with every copy of NT/Win2K - and of course MS have
> 'studies' that show that IIs is faster than Apache <cough,
> bullshit, cough>.
exactly. Hell, I'd take a hit in speed to get something that doesn't fall
over, and something that I can backup and take to another machine easily!!
Remember, folks: your average 386-20 can saturate a 10meg ethernet card with
cycles to spare. Imagine what happens when you put a PIII Xeon-800 or
something similar in with a single 100meg card... not that any ISP in NZ has
100meg of bandwidth that they are going to let a single customer use....
OC768 anyone??? :) (OC1 = 55meg/s)
N
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