Very Computer

Hello . . . I am currently using a web-hosting company to host my
website.  I am currently running on their Apache servers, however
since I essentially rely on Frontpage 98 to administer and develop my
site, I was wondering if I should switch over to their NT based server
running IIS.  Any comments would be gratefully received!

Thanks.

- Usman

Lots of people will give you differing opinions. I think it is fair to
say that most of the posters on comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix are
pro-Apache though.

I can only speak for myself - I ran a NT 4 server box with IIS 3 for
about 15 months and I found it a very frustrating experience. NT would
crash every few days without leaving any logs of why it failed,
the MS Index server (site search engine) did the same. Also NT/IIS is
not secure out of the box - it takes a great deal  of work to make it
secure, in fact I would say it is impossible.

I think you will find that most ISPs/web hosting companies of similar sorts
to yours would recommend Apache - NT/IIS is not stable or secure enough.

Hope the above info is of help.

        Nick.

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If I were you, I would look for a web host running a UNIX server with
frontpage extensions (I use prohost.com), as opposed to going for NT. I have
run a NT server before and found that its prettier but stupider than UNIX.

Andy