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Originally posted by Patchou
My server (patchou.com) receives hundreds of thousands of hits every day (yeah, day, where do you think the auto-update requests of Messenger Plus! go? ) and it is currently using Windows Server 2003. So we're talking about real business here, no speculations, just the facts:
I ran Linux on my server for more than a year. I spent a lot of time understanding how things were working in Linux, I found it pretty interesting but the fact remains that I couldn't spend 1 month without a major problem (email server not responding, web server crashing, very slow server, disk full because of 50GB of unmanaged logs, ...). When the server worked, it worked fine, but it has been hacked several times (the last one was fatal, as some of you already know).
Let's see what it does when Plus! v3.0 gets released tough, i mean you certainly did not have such many traffic on your Windows server as you had on the Linux with the 2.0 release.
I won't comment if either *nix or Windows is better, i had experience with both. Both have their good and bad points, it just are diffrent OS's and admin's should make their decissions based on personal needs and flavour.
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