With regard to all the bullcrap about security and performance, I suggest you all go read some whitepapers and shut up. IIS has been built in many major environments combining multihomed multifaceted hybrid database environments and outperformed with massive margins ALL other competitors - some of the advantages of dynamic algorithms that are so heavily researched inside of Microsoft coding labs and FEW OTHER places on the planet. This isn't overly important though, as there isn't a single person on this list who likely has a clue what kind of environment I describe. Gaming isn't everything ;)
To answer the question of security - when properly configured neither present any significant threat to your infrastructure. I would recommend starting to read at a news site like securityfocus or the like and begin reading IIS/Apache best-practice guidelines if you are concerned about security. You will want a clear understanding of your firewall infrastructure aswell, luckily for you there will be no issue with DPI firewalls messing with your application sessions. FYI the suggested extensions have currently known threats that massively outweigh either choice of web application server daemon, which is somewhat ironic, especially given the pretentiously knowledgable tone. If you want to install a basic web server on your box, why not try browsing for some guides on the net, google turns up all kinds see: http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/network/0,39044847,39189556,00.htm (example). It was right of people to say though, that this is not the place for these questions. You should look on a hosting mailing list. Out of interest, just how cheap are we talking, I mean it's less than a sweet a month for hosting these days. If you really have that much trouble finding affordable hosting, then mail me off the list and I'll help you out. On 8/4/05, OoksServer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIS is swisscheese software. If not properly patched it is like hanging out > a sign saying "Here I Am, Hack Me!". I personally would never host a site > with IIS. > > www.apache.org > > Throw in PHP and MySQL and maybe some PERL scripts and you have all you > need. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Tuttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:13 AM > Subject: RE: [hlds] Web server > > > > You should take this question to a web hosting community. But the short > > of > > it is that to setup a windows XP to host a website you need to use IIS. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
