Are any big boards successfully hosted on WINDOWS?

I have a radio station that needs windows, and a vbulletin forum that I would like to keep on linux - but having two servers is getting to be too much strain on the wallet.

My board isn't big in activity, but we have over 500,000 posts and high hopes

[CristianoDiaz]

Originally Posted by AWS

Interesting post. I have used v3 since the early betas. Never had a problem. maybe you should link me to a few of those posts. I visit their forum everyday and have yet to see any reports about it crashing since the final version was released. I nknow one of the betas had a problem.

Here are a few of the threads:

http://www.helicontech.com/forum/for...s-TID-8846.htm

http://www.helicontech.com/forum/for...s-TID-8457.htm

http://www.helicontech.com/forum/for...s-TID-8870.htm

It seems they have released a new build that may address these issues, but I couldn't wait for the release and have my site continue to be down for several days.

As far as the 100% computability, it is what their web site says, not my claim. My main concern was that it wouldn't make my site go down constantly, and after weeks of struggling with Isapi Rewrite taking down two servers (including a brand new 64 bit one with a fresh OS install), I had to do something. 15 minutes after uninstalling Isapi Rewrite and installing Isapi Mod_Rewrite, my site was instantly working fine and has not had a problem since.

[pedroenf]

No way windows compares to linux. I had my fórum in windows server 2003 R2 standard x64 edition with a amd sempron +3000 processor and changed recently to a Linux CentOS 5 with a Intel(R) Dual Xeon(R) CPU 3075 @ 2.66GHz and that made a diference. Oh now it's fast and reliable.