WAMP as a web server?

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WAMP as a web server?

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Would you suggest using WAMP as a web server on a Windows XP box for a website that contains parcel delivery information?

Me and a friend are creating a DB for a delivery company at the moment and I'm suggesting putting it on a freeBSD box in a data centre at an ISP I work at. But he thinks it's a good idea to host it on a Windows XP box with WAMP as the web server connected to an ADSL connection.

Does anyone know of any reliability/security issues with WAMP?

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Linux/Unix is the preferred server environment.
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AMP is inherently slower on W than on L. If you have the option to get a LAMP stack running, I would do that over a WAMP stack anyday.
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impulse() wrote:Would you suggest using WAMP as a web server on a Windows XP box for a website that contains parcel delivery information?
No.

impulse() wrote: Me and a friend are creating a DB for a delivery company at the moment and I'm suggesting putting it on a freeBSD box in a data centre at an ISP I work at. But he thinks it's a good idea to host it on a Windows XP box with WAMP as the web server connected to an ADSL connection.
And exactly why does he think that? And what are your motivations to use FreeBSD?

Imho i think it all depends on the person(s) that are going to administrate the box. I'm sure that there are people that can make any operating system insecure...
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I can get a free VDS in a data centre with no bandwidth charges, that runs on freeBSD. On the other hand I could put it on my Linux box at home but that runs on an ADSL connection.
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data centre > ADSL @ home

LAMP > WAMP

The choice is obvious.. ;)

And if you want to find out why, Google comparisons
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