website on linux
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we are planning to desin our website from the scratch we are into real estate and property development and our IT are linux skilled how ever we are outsouring the web services now the doubt is whether windows or linux for the website and also for the webhosting
I have recommended linux platform , pleas let me know is there any limitations in the look and feel of the website if we choose the linux for our website.
Is there any limitations on linux like images , video etc.
what are the advantages of going for the linux platform website , please suggest few lines this will help to present to the management.
we are planning to desin our website from the scratch we are into real estate and property development and our IT are linux skilled how ever we are outsouring the web services now the doubt is whether windows or linux for the website and also for the webhosting
I have recommended linux platform , pleas let me know is there any limitations in the look and feel of the website if we choose the linux for our website.
Is there any limitations on linux like images , video etc.
what are the advantages of going for the linux platform website , please suggest few lines this will help to present to the management.
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arober11
DrDamnit: "half the internet run linux servers" do you ever look at: w3Techs, and yes Linux is bundled in Unix bucket. Also: "MySQL (the database system for Linux", have you seen: http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/windows/ :0)
arober11:
OK... 2/3 run on *nix.
MySQL does have a port for Windows.
Having worked in both environments, I consider it a best practice to use MSSQL on Windows, and MySQL on Linux. (Postgres on Linux is also acceptable, but I am not proficient with it).
OK... 2/3 run on *nix.
MySQL does have a port for Windows.
Having worked in both environments, I consider it a best practice to use MSSQL on Windows, and MySQL on Linux. (Postgres on Linux is also acceptable, but I am not proficient with it).
There are many more toy's in that play box, and all have their own niche: Oracle, MongoDB, SQLlite, LDAP, DB2, Teradata....
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Thanks for all, it is really very much valuable information, i have choosen linux server since we are in real estate and property development, website content is one major part in additional look and feel plays a role hence can anybody recommend the best suited PHP or JAVA please suggest.
Your back to asking which colour of car is best to carry your shopping :)
Language has virtually no impact on what you can create.
Language has virtually no impact on what you can create.
The choice of PHP vs Java is more a question of your access to developers. If you have access to PHP developers, then choose PHP. If you have access to Java developers, then choose Java. I am a PHP/MySQL guy, but I can write Java too (although I reserve my Java writing for apps for phones more than anything else).
There are a plethora of developers for both, and I cannot give you a good reason to choose one over because for every massive PHP website I find, we can find another equally massive Java site. Neither is "optimized" your specific task. It's rather like asking which spoon in your kitchen drawer should you use to eat ice cream. They are different, but the same.
If you need someone to write it for you, I recommend outsourcing because you can get bids from different coders / companies and compare the cost of PHP vs Java. I have used this site for doing just that for years (very profitably): http://goo.gl/mT9tu
There are a plethora of developers for both, and I cannot give you a good reason to choose one over because for every massive PHP website I find, we can find another equally massive Java site. Neither is "optimized" your specific task. It's rather like asking which spoon in your kitchen drawer should you use to eat ice cream. They are different, but the same.
If you need someone to write it for you, I recommend outsourcing because you can get bids from different coders / companies and compare the cost of PHP vs Java. I have used this site for doing just that for years (very profitably): http://goo.gl/mT9tu
ASKER
Thank you very much sir, this satisfied all my techincal doubts. I will be choosing LAMP on ubuntu and hosting will be taken from rackspace or will look few more.
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would like close this post before that one final doubt , web developer says he will use CMS drupal , can anybody suggest me will this be a good choice, thanks
I have an affinity to Wordpress myself. Drupal is a bear to manage by comparison, but don't take my word for it. According to the 2011 Open Source Market Share Report, Wordpress:
1. Has the most installations
2. Has the most downloads
Of the one million websites that Alexa ranks, Wordpress runs 53.6% of them. Drupal only has 6.4%.
According to builtwith, Wordpress has a staggering 4,268,156 installations compared to Drupal's 307,926.
As far as support is concerned (getting someone to help you develop / manage), Wordpress has 19,215 specialists on eLance versus Drupal's 8,258. (You can throw a rock and hit a competent Wordpress manager / developer).
On the good news side for Drupal, Google ranks them equally with Wordpress.
But, on the bad news side, Wordpress is 5 times more popular with developers than Drupal, which means more free plugins, addins, and other useful stuff will be made for Wordpress than Drupal.
The report goes on to show graphs on "Social Bookmarking" as a function of the CMS, but I don't think that statistic is relevant, because social bookmarking is all about the CONTENT not the CMS platform from which the content came. Those trends to show Drupal as leading Wordpress slightly, but I think those stats show a relationship between sites that choose Drupal and those site's propensity to produce sharable content. This would make absolute sense when you consider that Wordpress is so easy to use, there are a good number of sites that install Wordpress for blathering about personal things (like a personal blog) that are not really sharable.
Source: http://www.waterandstone.com/downloads/2011OSCMSMarketShareReport.pdf
1. Has the most installations
2. Has the most downloads
Of the one million websites that Alexa ranks, Wordpress runs 53.6% of them. Drupal only has 6.4%.
According to builtwith, Wordpress has a staggering 4,268,156 installations compared to Drupal's 307,926.
As far as support is concerned (getting someone to help you develop / manage), Wordpress has 19,215 specialists on eLance versus Drupal's 8,258. (You can throw a rock and hit a competent Wordpress manager / developer).
On the good news side for Drupal, Google ranks them equally with Wordpress.
But, on the bad news side, Wordpress is 5 times more popular with developers than Drupal, which means more free plugins, addins, and other useful stuff will be made for Wordpress than Drupal.
The report goes on to show graphs on "Social Bookmarking" as a function of the CMS, but I don't think that statistic is relevant, because social bookmarking is all about the CONTENT not the CMS platform from which the content came. Those trends to show Drupal as leading Wordpress slightly, but I think those stats show a relationship between sites that choose Drupal and those site's propensity to produce sharable content. This would make absolute sense when you consider that Wordpress is so easy to use, there are a good number of sites that install Wordpress for blathering about personal things (like a personal blog) that are not really sharable.
Source: http://www.waterandstone.com/downloads/2011OSCMSMarketShareReport.pdf