Although it is blatently obvious that Linux/Unix is better for Servers as a rule, running a server on Windows isn't the worst thing in the world. A long time ago i thought, okay i need a computer for linux. Then i rebuilt myself a new one for my desktop and tried to use the old one as a router/multiple server. Unfortunatly it ends up that I can get impatient really fast on some things and just found it so much easier to have all my servers on my Windows machine and have it be my router.

Although it might have its problem, and the computer is generally restarted once every 3 days or so, Having Apache on a windows machine is just fine for a personal website. If I was running any type of site for important things, i would learn the necessary things to setup the correct permissions for everything in linux and find all my equivalent favorite programs. I personally think it isn't worth the effort to setup a linux box just for hosting a personal site.

Once I got all the config files setup correctly, I haven't had to touch them. As long as its Win2k or XP (or some NT based win os) You should be pretty safe. My only mistake was installing Apache2 instead of a version of 1. Now I'm just too lazy to change it cause i think soon enough I'm going to reconfigure a whole bunch of my sytems.

Apacha + PHP + mySQL has been running fine for me on my Windows XP Home, until I shut my comp. down. But, that causes a problem, because this computer is down for most of the week.

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My two cents: For a small personal site like mine, Windows and Apache + PHP is just fine. I've had no problems with it, set up was easy, and I don't have any problems. I don't use this as a hardcore server, (probably couldn't withstand being /.ed :-P ) but for a personal site this set up is fine. Linux or Free/NetBSD might be good for a server that's supposed to be a server....but I'm happy. :-)

I'm going to state that my server purposes isn't for a site expecting heavy-heavy doses of bandwidth usage, and traffic. It's just mainly for our team's website.

A windows server is about as much fun as a good solid kick to the face.

--Petey

Trust me on one thing:

No matter how good your website is, it won't matter if your server is down when people go to look at it.

--Petey

A windows server may be about as fun as a good solid kick to the face, but it's about as useful as a good solid kick to the balls. :D


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...wait.. that didn't make sense.

IIS sucks. .NET sucks more. end of story ;)