I'm not sure why you'd say that. I wouldn't create a caveat that my
time is worth nothing; thus, as Tony says, Linux ain't free.
I have very little trouble with Windows, so, again, I'm not sure what
you refer to about not putting IIS and the dbms server on the same box
and face it towards the internet...Windows is much better than it used
to be. The minimal amount of configuration, along with a firewall device
and/or router seems to work just fine, especially in our development
environment. Now, if you want to work with the "Active Directory" on
Windows Server 2012, or configure a VPN on your firewall/VPN device,
then you might as well just shoot yourself instead! :-)
I use Windows because, in the aggregate, using it has saved me a lot of
time with our customers. YMMV...
Bill
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----- Original Message -----
*From:* antli...@youngman.org.uk
*To:* u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
*Date:* 7/17/2013 12:25 PM
*Subject:* Re: [U2] CentOS with Universe?
On 17/07/2013 19:09, Bill Haskett wrote:
Dawn:
I kind of figured. :-) Whatever you decide, I'm sure would be
fine. I would just not look for anything "free", because nothing is
"free".
"It's only free if your time is worth nothing" - I think that's one of
Tony's quotes. Just don't forget, linux is "Free", which is completely
different.
I run everything on Windows because everything in the O/S is updated
and I know every machine I run is running the same version of
Windows. It seems when Windows updates I have very few problems with
the software I'm running on the machine. Surprisingly, this makes my
life a lot easier. IIS is easy to install, and 3rd party SFTP is
too, with virtual accounts as act like real Windows accounts.
And yet we hear loads of stories about how updates regularly break
Windows ... although they tend to be client stuff that suffers most of
that. The counter-advantage of linux is it's easy to run a
stripped-down box with only the services you want. Especially with a
net-facing system, how easy is it to run Windows with everything
except IIS locked-down/disabled/deleted?
And on linux you have total control over updates too. I don't think
you want to run gentoo like me, but if you've got someone who can
administer the system you could run Apache on one system facing the
net, on a totally locked-down system (maybe even with a DVD as your
system drive) with a firewall between that and your UV system.
I'd be a little bit worried about having just one Windows system,
net-facing, running both the web server and the database.
Although I run UniData, I think UniVerse is just as stable on Windows
as it is on ..nix. Although you may have specific reasons to run on
..nix I would think "free" shouldn't be one of them.
Just a thought.
A sensible thought :-) but you can see which way I'd go :-)
Cheers,
Wol
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