Re: Help re: moving Website from UNIX/Informix to NT/SQL

Marc Hatton wrote: > Question: I currently own a web site running on a Sun Netra i > Internet > Server w/ Solaris & Informix. I want to move the site to a Windows NT > > Server & SQL. I am not familiar with the technical feasibility, cost, > and > time involved in such a transfer. Does anyone have any advice, > comments, > suggestions, etc.? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! > > Marc > mhatton@thejobmarket.com Technically this is very feasible, but I'm not convinced that it makes a lot of sense unless your web site is very low traffic. My experience has been that NT does not have the same maturity level as Solaris. It's ability to handle the load of a serious web server at this time is questionable. I used to work for a company who had pretty good luck with using SQL Server on NT as a backend database for some financial modeling applications and then used a SS20 as the web server. It seemed work very well until they had over 2 million database transactions per day, and performance started to suffer. They switched to Sybase on NT ( because that is an easy port from SQL Server and the sales support was faster ) and seem to be doing well. If Informix on NT is a solid product you may want to consider moving your database to NT and leaving your web server on the Netra. I Hope this rambling as a little bit useful -Jerry Jerry Champlin, ESP Software Services