The way you created the servers was with vendor supplied options for setting up the server right out of the box.
Why would you put a server online that has all of RH3 installed? You need the kernel, mysql, some libs, and iptables. Once I have the IP tables setup, where exactly is there a need to do almost any of the patches listed? There is one conduit to a specific server, in/out. There is such a minimal amount of software needed to make a LINUX server do its thing compared to Windows. I can do in less then 200megs what takes windows 1,000+megs. I seems to me the criteria was limited in your test to only favor certain vendors in a specific, I mean very specific way. Tell me, can you even install the MS server in 200megs? I think once you take the graphics interface out of the picture you really would see the true greatness of the product, its small its fast, and I can eliminate all the other stuff I do not want to maintain in the long run. This is not even an option with MS anything, they have merged thier libraries, that it would take a
My Question, from the prespective of someone involved in a current LAMP startup, and 2 past ones.
Did you actually interview companies running the servers in question, or did you just read the vendors book on how to set them up, and was that a criteria of the test?
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Why would you put a server online that has all of RH3 installed? You need the kernel, mysql, some libs, and iptables. Once I have the IP tables setup, where exactly is there a need to do almost any of the patches listed? There is one conduit to a specific server, in/out. There is such a minimal amount of software needed to make a LINUX server do its thing compared to Windows. I can do in less then 200megs what takes windows 1,000+megs. I seems to me the criteria was limited in your test to only favor certain vendors in a specific, I mean very specific way. Tell me, can you even install the MS server in 200megs? I think once you take the graphics interface out of the picture you really would see the true greatness of the product, its small its fast, and I can eliminate all the other stuff I do not want to maintain in the long run. This is not even an option with MS anything, they have merged thier libraries, that it would take a
My Question, from the prespective of someone involved in a current LAMP startup, and 2 past ones.
Did you actually interview companies running the servers in question, or did you just read the vendors book on how to set them up, and was that a criteria of the test?