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Running vBulletin on Windows
Apologies for what will be a rambling post, if you want scroll to the end for the actual point/question
I currently run a medium sized vBulletin forum - typical user loads is something like this:
And things are growing... At the moment this is all running on a fully managed Linux CentOS VPS. This is all well and good and the server easily manages the loads. However there is one critical problem here, and that problem is me. I am by no means a Linux expert so I find even the most trivial tasks quite complicated and the learning curve is extremely steep. Learning is good, however learning on a production/live server is, shall we say, fraught with dangers. Of course I could try and create an offline mirror of the server OS/Configuration etc and learn/test on that but to be honest, that is just a faff I could do without. Even though my current server is fully managed waiting for support to perform a change can sometimes be somewhat frustrating. So taking my failings into consideration I am thinking about moving to a Windows based VPS instead. My real world job requires me to administer and develop for enterprise level windows based services (with loads and usages thousands of percent higher than the load on my forum), so I am of course extremely comfortable with Windows server management. However, I have never run PHP/MySQL under IIS/Win32 Apache so I have no experience of how this setup holds up to load. I am fairly confident that this shouldn't be an issue, but there is no harm in getting community opinion on this. So the question are:
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Yes, yes and no to answer the questions.
Never use Apache on a Windows Server. My only suggestion is to go with Windows 2008. There is a performance increase do to the cache system, also in 2003 just a pain to turn on, and fast-cgi wrapper. |
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Like you, my real world job focuses around Windows servers in the enterprise. When I had the option of UNIX or Windows for my dedicated server, I chose Windows for the reasons you mentioned. I did not want to learn on a production machine.
I run my forums on a W2k3 box with Apache2.2/PHP5/MySQL. I used IIS in the past, however it was an uphill battle with non VB scripts that relied on htaccess rules and such. There are IIS equivalents for mod_rewrite in Apache, however they are limited, cost money, and require you to be able to write your own rules. I chose to not swim upstream in that area as it is not my forte. If you do choose to use Apache on Windows, the ApacheLounge is an excellent resource for Windows hosts using Apache. Stephen provides better binaries and some additional tools for log rotation and MRTG statistical information. One thing to consider is my loads are not high regarding traffic or concurrent users. |
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basically I'm running on windows xp pro (tweaked) Intel 4 3.20ghz and 4 gigs of ram using apache 2.2.11 mysql 5.1.30 and php 5.2.8 all i can say is tested it out yourself and you'll be satisfied with the results. Good Luck :up: |
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