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Hard to take it seriously when they start off by suggesting that the web server, by itself, makes it a good investment. I have nothing against IIS (I think hand
by jkat 14y ago
Hard to take it seriously when they start off by suggesting that the web server, by itself, makes it a good investment. I have nothing against IIS (I think handlers written in C# is a solid feature compared to the alternatives for other servers)...but at best IIS is as good as many free alternatives. Maybe they mean within the context of ASP.NET hosting, but they really should make that clear (and if so, say how, exactly, it's better for ASP.NET).
- corresation 14y agoI do not read this as a pitch for people currently running nginx to move to Windows. Instead it is targeted, it seems, at people running prior versions of Windows, and who have various reasons to prefer to continue with that platform. I don't quite buy the "this ends the jokes" bit, as the jokes ended long ago (the world was once awash with IIS exploits. It has been a rock-solid, high-performance platform since IIS 6.0, if not before).
- powertower 14y agoMicrosoft licensing costs are a rounding error compared to the cost of employees for a business. "Free" and "Alternative" are valid comparison terms if you are thinking of industries such as Shared Hosting and use-cases of PHP. There is a reason why MS makes the billions it does every year with "free alternatives" on the market... Because they solve a lot of problems for some people.
- daigoba66 14y ago> Microsoft licensing costs are a rounding error compared to the cost of employees for a business. That's not true for the product editions labeled "enterprise" or "ultimate". Just look at SQL Server Enterprise.