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IIS7 vs Linux
| Posted by OpticalGaming, 07-18-2010, 12:39 PM |
| I'm looking to buy a new web server (more HDD/RAM) and now have the dilema of what OS to use.
One of the sites I own requires PHP's MSSQL extension. Anyone familiar with PHP and Linux will know that it has no native support for it.
I use cPanel and FreeTDS. FTDS is a bit of a pain to set up and can take a few attempts. I think cPanel is a bit of an overkill these days also as I host my emails on Google Apps and control my own DNS elsewhere. It's also no longer updated and has caused us some problems (we have to use our Linux webserver for some things, and a Windows (NGINX) webserver for others).
Now for the part that matters.
On my biggest site, we run a forum. We have 470k+ registered users and anywhere from 200-1000 can be online at any one time. There may also sometimes (once or twice a month) by a surge of concurrent users downloading several files, usually around ~1000 users simultaneously (our current web server will spike ~60-70MB/s upstream during this).
Again, this is all ran on LiteSpeed and it works great. No crashing and handles it fine.
My dilema is now what OS to pick for the new web server. I'm not a Linux guy, in fact I quite dislike it and only use it because of LiteSpeed. I've used Windows Servers for several years now and really like 2008.
Has anyone previously ran large websites on a Linux webserver and has switched to IIS7? How do they compare?
Does anyone currently run large websites on IIS7? How is the performance / resources?
Hope that makes sense.
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| Posted by Motiv, 07-18-2010, 02:49 PM |
| I recently migrated a website with about the same or more activity to IIS 7 on 2008 R2. We setup a load balanced Cloud Hybrid Solution with the load balanced IIS servers in the cloud for scalability and the MS SQL databases on a physical box for less cost on the MS SQL license.
IIS 7 on 2008 R2 really delivers. Highly recommended.
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| Posted by peep96, 07-18-2010, 08:50 PM |
| I started out running a Windows box with Apache/PHP/MYSQL. I switched over to IIS7 with PHP and MSSQL, and comparing Apache with IIS7, I concluded that IIS7 was a bit slower than Apache, possibly because my pages were built with PHP. The only good thing was that MSSQL ran great. Personally, I would go with Windows Server 2008 and install Apache but use MSSQL. If I remember right it is possible. Also, XAMPP is highly recommended by me.
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| Posted by FORLinux, 07-19-2010, 10:36 AM |
| Hi,
Even though we're Linux through and through I would recommend you stick with Windows because of MSSQL. Yes, use Apache/PHP for a more stable secure platform than IIS. We've never been able to get Linux working well with MSSQL for busy sites.
Steve
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| Posted by streaky81, 07-19-2010, 12:07 PM |
| Caveat before what I'm about to say: I use Linux for everything.
But slowloris begs to differ TBH - it's all about perspective. Has to be said because unqualified remarks are what get us into trouble.
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