We do OK with IIS, it is flexible, powerful, has a huge base of developers
to draw from, lots of tools, ....
...But it has it's flaws and it's a nightmare from time to time. Typical
Microsoft stuff... (things that break in the middle of the night with no
reason, no acknowledgement, no error messages, and no support etc...)
I suggest that if you must run it, for now, do it on NT4.0, SP6A and keep
everything else off the box. (We've heard what you've heard and are staying
shy of W2K for a bit) Reboot once a week (at least) to keep things clean,
and watch it carefully on a daily basis... Waiting for an alarm from your
favorite monitoring software is not good enough - especially if you're
running database driven sites... ODBC connectors and ADO have a habit of
running themselves into a corner without telling anyone, at which time, the
site will simply start throwing error messages at users, but not at you, so
the only way to catch it is to actually view the pages once in a while, and
be prepared to investigate every customer complaint immediately if not
sooner - even a minor message can be an indicator of a huge problem.
Frankly, we wouldn't do it unless customers _insisted_ on IIS, ASP, ADO and
Front page extensions... If we could talk them into it, we'd love to have
them on Apache and Oracle8i. For now, it's a business necessity so we're
stuck with it. I suspect many are in this boat. Making it pay is a matter of
"staying well within the lines" and keeping your eyes open.
Sorry for the off-topic.
My $0.02.
_M
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Mast,
WinFakt!
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 3:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Witch Server?
Hi,
I have to decide witch server I need to set up a Internet Server.
We use Windows 2000 Server but lots of people talk bad about IIS...
We need ASP and ADO database connectivity.
Does someone has good or bad experience with IIS?
Do I have other options?
Thanks!
regards,
Patrick Mast
www.PatrickMast.com
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