Re: Choosing a Hardware/OS Platform for Informix.

For security reasons, the Informix server should be on a different box than the web server. Whether it should be another NT box or a UNIX box depends on how important ($$$) performance and stability are. IMHO, if you're concerned with performance and stability, use a UNIX box as the data server. It can support multi-processing (NT/Informix can't), and UNIX tends to be more stable than NT. But UNIX also costs a helluva lot more, so you have to weigh that into the equation. As for HP vs. Solaris, if you can influence the decision, I'd lean toward Solaris, simply because it's Informix's primary platform (i.e., they typically develop for Solaris and then port to the other OSes later), and because Sun tends to outperform HP. (They scale to multiple CPUs a lot better). Russell Bierschbach wrote in message <364af8e9.0@news.prismnet.com>... >Here's my situation. I have to install Informix (Dynamic Server) on a >machine, and connect it (probably via ODBC) to another server and the >internet. My question is, should the database reside on the same NT server >as the web site? Another NT server? Or possible an HP 9000 running HP/UX? >My preference is for HP/UX, but I'm having a little trouble justifying the >additional cost to management and the customer. Here are the systems we are >looking at, all servers will have plenty of RAM, and probably a 90 GB RAID >Array. The system will be used primarily for reporting. > >HP LH III (2 Intel PII 400 MHz, NT 4.0) >HP LXr 8000 (4 Intel Xeon 400 MHz) >HP K380 (4 HP PA 240 MHz) > >Sun/Solaris would be an option, but the customer site were looking at is >biased towards HP. > > > >