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sofy60
Joined: Feb 17, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Mar-25 00:22
windows vs linux
Does anyone know the market share of these two operating systems in regard to servers online.
Im thinking linux is bigger but I maybe wrong.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2005-Mar-25 01:33
Linux is waaay bigger. The webserver that most people use with Linux is Apache.
There is a version of Apache that you can run on Windows if you want to play around with webservers and have a local box to develop on.
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lizardz
Joined: Nov 12, 2004
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Posted: 2005-Mar-26 08:52
Unix/Linux, around 65%, give or take, although MS a few years ago created the impression that they'd expanded their market share when a major registrar started using windows servers for some components, but those weren't even running the real applications.
If you've ever worked with or around Windows/IIS servers, you might understand why linux is used so much more often, and why Apache is the overwhelmingly preferred web server on the market today.
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swervedrivers
Joined: Oct 27, 2004
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Posted: 2005-Apr-01 22:13
This is a serious question, although I'm not really sure how to word it without coming off as a smart a**. By default ($$$$, in other words) all our sites are on Windows ... yet the sites usually work okay. What gives?
Jake
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lizardz
Joined: Nov 12, 2004
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Posted: 2005-Apr-02 01:18
Windows servers work 'ok'. Your choice of words is accurate.
I just redid a site, switched it from IIS ASP to Apache/PHP, and now it works great. Before I wouldn't have used the word 'ok', I would have used something much less flattering to describe the uptime, features, security, flexibility etc it had on Windows. Now we have access to a real DB, mysql, mod_rewrite, etc. Plus I never have to talk to the hoster tech support again and listen to them explain why feature x y and z have been shut off for 'security' reasons.
The technical end of it is interesting too, amount of new IP connections per second, amount maintained per second, transactions per second, Windows isn't even close by the last study I read on that.
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squirrel
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Posted: 2005-Apr-03 19:16
Netcraft has some pretty good stats on this among other things. Here is the latest Apache Microsoft breakdown.
[link]
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swervedrivers
Joined: Oct 27, 2004
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Posted: 2005-Apr-04 02:58
lizardz - thanks a lot for the info. I'm, copying/pasting this thread, because I plan on learning about this in a month or so. (We're late bloomers; we only got around to being able to access our log files a few days ago; the server stuff is coming soon.)
thankx everyone else, too
Jake
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g1smd
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Posted: 2005-Apr-04 11:13
Apache: 70% and increasing.
M$: 20% and falling.
That says it all....
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