Unix is still (i believe) a tried and true server.. Though, most people will not touch your personal webserver even if they have time (as they most likely will be targetting bigger servers to get more exposer
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However, many attacks are pretty general, they target unfixed bugs in critical mass servers (which means enough user are using it to make it worthwhile).. As IIS are pretty new, i would go with Apache, there is a reason why 60% of the web is powered by apache
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Originally posted by Tyler1989
With that said I am a user of IIS6.0 and will be using IIS7.0, The problem is that IIS6.0 and below is a gate way for viruses and other attacks. IIS7.0 will be changed so these bugs will not affect your system. Linux is much harder to set up and I do not prefer it. If one properly sets up their security on Windows it is just as good or if not better than Linux for "Personal Web Hosting".
I'd also wait for IIS7.0 and Windows Server 2005. Server 2005 is officially called Server 2003 R2 but Server 2005 sounds so much better. |
well, you said, "IIS7.0 will be changed so these bugs will not affect your system", i concur that these IIS6.0 bugs (if that's what your referring to) should and will not affect IIS7.0 (if they do, then MS is really screwing up don't you think?).. The reason why IIS6.0 is such a bad piece of software is that MS is new to the web game, i'm sure they'll suit up in time, but for now, if you want better security, you'd do better to trust Apache
I wouldn't say that if a system is hard to setup, i wouldn't do it for the sake of better end product. Especially for a smaller scale site, i would say that linux is more cost effective to maintain than windows.. That is, if you obtain your software legally..
as you also kindly pointed out, IIS7.0 is coming out later (i'm not really sure on this, as i have never been keen on the tail of MS news).. so why would you wait when you can get Apache now
for good howtos on setting up apache:
http://www.google.com/search?q=apach...utf-8&oe=utf-8
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