On 19 Aug 98, at 19:25, Tamra R. Heathershaw-Hart wrote:
> My husband and partner would like to pick the brains of all the techies on
> our list. Those of you who could care less about servers, databases, or
> the whole NTvsUnix debate might as well skip this whole message....
This whole website and his book should be a must read:
http://photo.net/wtr/rdbms-backed.html
> >Any thoughts on performance, reliability, etc.? I'm biased towards Perl
> >and UNIX, but maybe NT is really what's best now for the client (my sense
> >is that ASP offers better performance than Perl). I've heard through the
Ummm...mmm I have no hard facts either. Is ASP not running within
the webserver -- and if your ASP crashes so crashes the server?
I spoke to a programmer who said that using mod_perl improved speed
and reduced overhead. I have read the same. It is my opinion that use
of mod_perl is equivalent if not superior to ASP.
I would say that ASP is probably more efficient than basic CGI.
> >grapevine, though, that NT servers tend to be unstable. The price of
I have the feeling that a properly configured computer with all the
right versions of NT might be as secure as say BSD Unix or Linux. At
iserver they use BSD and it is amazing. The NT route binds you to
depend on M$ -- no doubt about it. The unix route is much more open;
more freedom.
Didn't hotbot go to NT? I would like to see what they say about it.
> >miniSQL is attractive ($250!), but it doesn't do transactions
> >(commit/rollback). I checked the pricing on Oracle and it was fairly
> >expensive, plus I've heard that Oracle is difficult to install and
> >maintain. Another question is when/whether you have to put the relational
> >database on its own dedicated server separate from the machine that's
> >running the Web server software.
That commit/rollback is important. I would say that msql is good for
simple applications. What rdbms to choose will depend on what you
plan to do. I use msql from habit. I would certainly use mysql
before msql (mysql is free and has a very good reputation -- many who
once used msql now use mysql and swear by it). But I doubt if it
supports "commit/rollback".
If you use perl/dbi then you can change your rdbms and very easily
use the same scripts by just a few changes.
I don't think "difficult" should stop you. "Buggy" is a word that
might stop you but not difficult.
It would be interesting to see what the heavily used sites are using
in terms of all of the above.
Peter
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