"Microsoft gained nearly five percent market share in the Web server market, however still lags well behind market leader Apache, research and security firm Netcraft said Friday. Nonetheless, it was the biggest one-month swing in the history of the industry. With more than 80 million Web sites on the Internet, Microsoft now claims a 25.2 percent share, up 4.7 percent from March. Apache still leads by a wide margin, however it was down close to 6 percent to 62.7 percent. Sun remained a distant third, down slightly to 2.36 percent."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Heh, I'll give you that...we had a dedicated IIS admin who took care of our 4x4 cluster, meaning he was there 40 hours a week monitoring/tuning/etc. Not the entire 40/wk for IIS, but most of it. That being said, w/o AC2K it would have been much more of a nightmare (these clusters supported 10 LOB apps w/ > 5000 concurrent users hammering them all day long).
To answer your question, all of the AC2k capabilities are being rolled into Vista Server: http://www.microsoft.com/applicationcenter/evaluation/roadmap.mspx. Which of course means A) no additional licensing costs and B) that there will be plenty of new features.
Member since:2006-04-10
Nice setup, but you had a dedicated IIS admin., lucky you. I AM the IIS admin. along with many other hats. In any event, it is a good product, just badly supported. I hope that changes with Vista.
Anywho, Apache is, and will be, the king of web serving no matter what MSFT does. How could you NOT, I mean, Apache is FREE!
Edited 2006-04-10 23:48
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2006-04-10
Dude, have you EVER worked on AC2KSP2 before? Do you know how much WORK it is to keep it running at 99%?
And, just to let you know, it is WEAK when it comes to detecting hung IIS systems. Considering that I've been administering 3x3 AC2KSP2 clusters for well over 3 years now. Woah, the trifecta.... Not to mention the botched PerfDLLs it causes when "it feels like it".
Now, all is not a crap-fest with AC2KSP2. When it does work, it works like a CHAMP. Content Management is pretty easy, managing servers via the GUI is pretty sweet, Health monitors are helpful and the CLI is damm friendly to a *nix aficionado like myself.
Granted, AC2000SP2 is much more stable, MS support for it is next to nothing. The only support I've seen is from some MS dude called "George Chen". He seems to be THE ONLY DUDE supporting that beast.
Now, with 2K3, NLB is MUCH, MUCH nicer. And I do agree with a previous poster, you are Nucking Futs if you're running on IIS5.
While I'm ranting.... anyone heard on the newer version of AC? Just wondering...