Re:It's as stable as the people who admin it (Score 3)

I run a small ISP with less bandwidth than Rob has (1/3 of a T1) and my web pages slug around a bit when I have a full rack of 24 users signed in. /. kicks for what he has resources to put into it. Mastercard only goes so far :) I have 2 servers side by side - my "main" web server runs NT with IIS (PII 233 with 64 MB RAM)(http://www.main1.net and all sites that host on our advertising banner) This server is the reason I was dragged kicking and screaming into this "damned cryptic command line gibberish operating system that can't work because it's only $40" called Linux (Red Hat to be exact). http://home.main1.net is on a pentium 120 with 16MB of RAM, Linux 5.2 with Apache. Which would crash first on a heavy load? Don't know - both have light load (and the linux box has little on it for web pages) Which do I like to use now? NT only because I use Windows on a "every waking hour" basis and when I'm not using Windows I'm using a Mac. Which am I sold on as being "sturdier"? Linux. Every little change I make to the NT server seems to require a reboot. Linux I added a doohickey to sendmail to weed out Melissa and it only need a kill/HUP -3xp or whatever that command was on my cheat sheet that I typed in an it somehow worked. And NO reboot either!