Re: Mac Vs WindowsNT
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
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texte = >We haven't figured out yet how to support true virtual hosting on Windows >NT yet. Maybe someone else on the list could give more details on that. >With WebTen each website gets its own ip address, so that its not based >on header based virtual hosting. We looked into setting this up with IIS >under NT for its web- and ftp services but could not find a way to do it. >If it's not possible, I would stick for sure with the Mac.We do not have benchmarks comparing Mac vs NT (and this is not the place to start an OS war), but we've found that NT/IIS is more responsive as a web server and is extremely flexible to set up for true multiple-IP multihoming. The low-level IP stuff just seems to be faster on NT than on Mac, plus a *big* bonus is the ability to have multiple SSL certificates running under IIS. Alternatively, there are other advantages to the MacOS approach which all of you Mac afficionados already know. There's a lot to be said for a webmaster simply being comfortable with one platform over another.[PREEMPTIVE_DIPLOMACY] I am very happy with the platform-agnostic politeness so far on this talk list, so PLEASE don't start an OS war here -- you've got WebCatalog on both NT+MacOS, so let's just discuss how to accomplish things with WebCatalog itself. It's OK to publish your results with your benchmarks and such, just don't try to convince someone else to switch.There are different advantages to WebTen, IIS, WebSite, WebSTAR, Quid Pro Quo, FireSite, MacHTTP, and Netscape, and it's up to their respective talk lists to make sure everybody knows the differences. [/PREEMPTIVE_DIPLOMACY]That said, here's how you can set up NT 4.0 for multiple IP addresses under IIS:1) Open the Control Panels window 2) Open the Network icon 3) Click the Protocols tab 4) Double-click TCP/IP Protocol 5) Click the Advanced... button 6) Click the Add... button and type in a new IP address 7) Click OK out of all those dialogs 8) Open Start Menu -> Programs -> Microsoft Internet Server -> Internet Service Manager 9) Double-click you WWW server icon 10) Click the Directories tab 11) Click Add... and Browse... to find the home directory for your new site (you should have created a folder where all your HTML files go) 12) Click Home Directory radio button 13) Click Virtual Server checkbox 14) Type the IP address that you created earlierNow anytime someone hits that IP address, that folder will be the home directory for that site. You might have to restart the machine to get the new IP address to show up.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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>We haven't figured out yet how to support true virtual hosting on Windows >NT yet. Maybe someone else on the list could give more details on that. >With WebTen each website gets its own ip address, so that its not based >on header based virtual hosting. We looked into setting this up with IIS >under NT for its web- and ftp services but could not find a way to do it. >If it's not possible, I would stick for sure with the Mac.We do not have benchmarks comparing Mac vs NT (and this is not the place to start an OS war), but we've found that NT/IIS is more responsive as a web server and is extremely flexible to set up for true multiple-IP multihoming. The low-level IP stuff just seems to be faster on NT than on Mac, plus a *big* bonus is the ability to have multiple SSL certificates running under IIS. Alternatively, there are other advantages to the MacOS approach which all of you Mac afficionados already know. There's a lot to be said for a webmaster simply being comfortable with one platform over another.[PREEMPTIVE_DIPLOMACY] I am very happy with the platform-agnostic politeness so far on this
Talk List, so PLEASE don't start an OS war here -- you've got WebCatalog on both NT+MacOS, so let's just discuss how to accomplish things with WebCatalog itself. It's OK to publish your results with your benchmarks and such, just don't try to convince someone else to switch.There are different advantages to WebTen, IIS, WebSite, WebSTAR, Quid Pro Quo, FireSite, MacHTTP, and Netscape, and it's up to their respective
Talk Lists to make sure everybody knows the differences. [/PREEMPTIVE_DIPLOMACY]That said, here's how you can set up NT 4.0 for multiple IP addresses under IIS:1) Open the Control Panels window 2) Open the Network icon 3) Click the Protocols tab 4) Double-click TCP/IP Protocol 5) Click the Advanced... button 6) Click the Add... button and type in a new IP address 7) Click OK out of all those dialogs 8) Open Start Menu -> Programs -> Microsoft Internet Server -> Internet Service Manager 9) Double-click you WWW server icon 10) Click the Directories tab 11) Click Add... and Browse... to find the home directory for your new site (you should have created a folder where all your HTML files go) 12) Click Home Directory radio button 13) Click Virtual Server checkbox 14) Type the IP address that you created earlierNow anytime someone hits that IP address, that folder will be the home directory for that site. You might have to restart the machine to get the new IP address to show up.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
Grant Hulbert
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