Discuss

6/10/2006 12:32:22 AM

Flamewar waiting to happen.

6/10/2006 12:34:21 AM

I have to make some big decisions pretty soon, just curious about opinions, thoughts, experiences



[Edited on June 10, 2006 at 12:41 AM. Reason : I use Apache on my private network but I've never dealt with IIS.]

6/10/2006 12:36:56 AM

This has to be a joke.

6/10/2006 12:43:41 AM

from what I've seen, apache scales insane loads better but there are a lot of things I wish apache could that IIS can.

6/10/2006 12:45:24 AM

I am sure she nowhere needs any scaling.

6/10/2006 1:08:23 AM

I don't personally need scalability, but the project this is for, hopefully at some point, will. We've built a fully functional PHP based historical simulation, which is currently hosted via Apache, but we're about to officially launch it, so I'm wondering what will be the best option would be.

6/10/2006 1:26:40 AM

the site will have more thana few dozen thousand of hits a second?

6/10/2006 1:35:29 AM

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"IIS vs Apache"

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"PHP"

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"This has to be a joke."

[Edited on June 10, 2006 at 2:04 AM. Reason : .]

6/10/2006 1:50:33 AM

rofl

PHP and scalability


yeah right.

6/10/2006 1:51:53 AM

I've never had (and never heard of anyone having) a good experience with IIS and PHP.

6/10/2006 2:05:43 AM

PHP sucks

I am calling for trolling, but I stand by that Java is the best technology for scalable websites.

6/10/2006 2:08:32 AM

php does seem to have grown stagnant over the years, while ms offerings seem to get better. I would never mix php and IIS though

6/10/2006 2:24:36 AM

PHP is good for small apps.

java is great for big apps.

.net is unkown to me.

6/10/2006 4:03:44 AM

i can't recall ever being happy with a java webapp, let alone matters of scalability

6/10/2006 6:11:42 PM

well, then you were either working with bad code or a bad java method server aka application server.

All the top ecommerce sites are java based

6/10/2006 6:12:24 PM

PHP is the best for small to medium-scale enterprise web applications.

Java and PHP don't really compete with each other, if the project is well thought out. PHP5 allows you to do damn near everything you can do server-side with Java, with less overhead and faster execution time (for the most part). Anything beyond web services, use Java. And the two work pretty damn well together actually.

But yes, IIS + PHP is disaster. Stick to Apache.

6/10/2006 6:21:30 PM

Thanks all, sounds to me like I need to keep my current setup for the most part for now. By the time we get to the size gargs is talking about we'll to hire someone more 1337 than I anyway.

6/10/2006 6:50:57 PM