Windows Server 2003

[Mario]

Any good? Got an evaluation disk to load on my poo-comp, wanted to get some thoughts on it firt. :)

[STIBungy]

Dont bother unless you plan on running it as a server. IE is very locked down by default. No Hyperterminal. Everytime you want to shut it down or reboot, you have to give it a reason. Hehehe.

[Mario]

Dont bother unless you plan on running it as a server. IE is very locked down by default. No Hyperterminal. Everytime you want to shut it down or reboot, you have to give it a reason. Hehehe.

Well I gotta AMD 500, 128MB RAM, 15GB setup here that'll I'll be slowly turning into my server... so I was looking at giving this a shot.

You have to give it a reason when you log out? 'burnout:

[2002jettavr6]

its not bad I run it here at work for file servers. I like it better then xp server though

[STIBungy]

It's just expecting some character string under the comment field. You can select "planned". To me, it's just one more level of unnecessary complexity. As long as you're not running the 64 bit version, it's manageable. I have a system with dual Itaniums and so far, I havent found java for 64 bit. I have to run the 32 bit version of IE for most webpages to work properly.

Well I gotta AMD 500, 128MB RAM, 15GB setup here that'll I'll be slowly turning into my server... so I was looking at giving this a shot.

You have to give it a reason when you log out? 'burnout:

[Brian]

pretty solid platform for a server. I wouldn't use it for a worstation though for the reasons above.

[exciv2000]

its not bad I run it here at work for file servers. I like it better then xp server though

there's no such thing as XP server bro

[STIBungy]

LOL. True dat.

there's no such thing as XP server bro

[john]

It's a server OS, pretty much short & sweet. I tried it as a destop just for grins on a work machine. Win2k is the only O/S that I'd ever consider using to do real work. My windows counterpart @ work is in the process of updating our win2k machines to win2k3, and he's pretty pleased with it.

What is your 'server' going to be doing? Anything that a linux/samba combo can't?

I also have an eval disk, which I got from micro$oft as their 'windows for unix guys' toolkit. My windows pal poopoo'ed that idea and gave me a copy of the real deal, suggesting that the eval copy was timebombed (which it is - 180 days), and that the real deal (with a real, valid, licensed software key) had more stuff included than the demo disk.

$0.02 worth.

[john]

What's xp server?

I like it better then xp server though

[2002jettavr6]

I ment w2ks but was working on a XP build as I typed that

note to self one thing at a time

[john]

;)

[Mario]

This is going to be serving all my images and my HTML stuff now that I figured out how Qwest works with their anti port 80 setup. :D

I was contemplating Linux as well... I am kinda open on my options, I don't really care - I just remembered that Mike gave me a Windows Server 2003 disk and thought I'd post here to see how it'd fare for a simple server setup. Does anyone know how hard it is to get PHP and MySQL running on it? Is it even possible on a Windows server?

[foxxof]

This is going to be serving all my images and my HTML stuff now that I figured out how Qwest works with their anti port 80 setup. :D

I was contemplating Linux as well... I am kinda open on my options, I don't really care - I just remembered that Mike gave me a Windows Server 2003 disk and thought I'd post here to see how it'd fare for a simple server setup. Does anyone know how hard it is to get PHP and MySQL running on it? Is it even possible on a Windows server?
i ran SQL on my windows 2000 server pro. yea its possible. windows server 2003? wich vs was the 2003?

[exciv2000]

mysql and php is possible on W2K3, but what a pain in the ass, not to mention all the exploits for IIS. Go with apache on *nix and you'll be set, and it's much easier to configure. Try BSD, then just pkg_add -r mysql && pkg_add -r mod_php4 after you get it up and going.

[alpinersx]

I figured out how Qwest works with their anti port 80 setup. :D

How do you get around it?

[Mario]

Just goin through a different port.

[Brian]

I ran this website off my home box on win2k advanced server for over a year. I'm glad I did because of all that I learned, but when I switched to linux it was so much faster and easier to do the same stuff. I would definetly run linux for any server project in the future. The only thing linux can't do is asp scripts, but now there are even packages avaliable for that so there really is no need for windows IMO as far as servers go. (at least for the type of websites I run)

[Mario]

Well, ASP is slow and sucks anyways... PHP owns. :D