Your hardware will determine your level of performance and in many cases stability (cheap components like generic ram lower stability and performance) but I've had no problems running PHP under FreeBSD 4 or FreeBSD 5 or Slackware Linux and mostly minor problems running under HP-UX 10/11.
Everyone has at least one OS of choice (mine is FreeBSD and then OpenBSD) so you will have to weigh opinions, I would decide what you need your server to do and then take a look at a few operating systems. FreeBSD is an excellent all purpose server, OpenBSD is excellent in high threat environments, Linux is good if that is all your IT supports or you are doing very Linux specific things. All the PHP optimizer/caching programs I've used have support for FreeBSD and Linux so that will not be a limiting factor. Basically get good hardware and your performance with PHP should be good under most operating systems, get bad hardware and it doesn't matter anyway. Jason On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 17:55, Charles Kline wrote: > Just wondering. I am trying to decide whether to build a FreeBSD server > or other... open to suggestions > > Thanks, > Charles -- Jason Sheets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
