I don’t have the busiest server in the world, but running a blog, reading my mail and having a photogallery really takes IIS to its limits. IIS on Windows XP Pro, that is. Although I meta-editted the maxconnections from 10 to 40, I still get a “too many users” quite regularly.
I want to switch to Apache. It’s fast, it’s has no connection limit (other than what the server can handle) and lot’s of free software is designed with Apache in mind. But Apache does not serve ASP.NET pages. And some applications I use have IIS-integration, but no Apache counterpart.
So, let’s upgrade to IIS 6. That seems logical. But that is quite an upgrade. One needs to upgrade the complete server, since IIS can only be run on Windows 2003. But since Windows 2003 is a server operating system, some tools (like Norton Antivirus) don’t work, since you need the server version for that. Server versions are far more expensive than their non-server counterparts.
So to be able to run IIS 6.0 to enable me to upgrade my ASP.NET programming skills, I need to buy Windows 2003 Standard or higher (Webedition does not suit my needs), perhaps a bigger server (since Win2K3 weighs a lot more than WinXP), and I need to upgrade some of my software to server-editions. How uncool is that?
Where is mod_httpsys.dll for Apache 2? Why is it that with Microsoft I always feel locked-in? If anybody knows a good (free or cheap) mailserver for Linux, perhaps I will reinstall the server.
Is it time for me to have a look at Janeva?
