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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Automatic data recording |
| Date: |
07/01/2003 03:00:00 AM |
| From: |
viktoras |
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Hi !
Just a general remark on asp.
>Consider that with .asp you have the community support of users and vendors
>of Microsoft applications, by far the largest "community" in computing,
>hundreds of millions of people and an immense range of choices of every
>application conceivable. In the Windows world, those applications that are
>used with HTTP servers usually support .asp first and then everything else
>either not at all or rather thinly.
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Everyone involved in cgi programming/server-side services actualy knows
a serious drawback pf asp - it is still poorly suitable for heavily used
services. If you have hundreds of hits per second on your site then your
asp starts "idling". Actualy speed difference for the identical
algorithm written in asp and some other "older" server programming
languages like PHP or Perl is usualy about ~60 times (asp is slower).
And if you are going to use it under windows environment, you are going
to have serious problems with it. Not to mention windows and IIS related
security problems. Windows world is nice until you smash into serious
efficiency and security issues.
While learning some php, perl (perl_mod incl.) is not too hard if you
are already involved in GIS or any kind of professional computing (many
have accomplished this easily) and hiring somebody to do the work in
Unix/Apache or Linux/Apache environment is actualy a more proffessional
approach in this sence. One day you may be surprised to find out how an
"old outdated" Pentium II/Linux/Apache/Perl_mod system outperformes
"up-to-date" Pentium IV/WindowsXP/IIS/ASP system given equal amounts of RAM.
Best regards
Viktoras
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