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Is Linux or Windows Server better, given the following specifications?
1. I have years experience managing Windows Servers, both virtual and dedicated and 2003/2008/2008R2.
2. The application will initially be developed in PHP, but will be ported to Java, Python or .NET depending on the initial benchmarks.
3. The DB is going to be MySql
4. There will be multiple websites (and “applications” – just web services for iPhone apps to integrate with) on a single server
5. We may have to move to a load-balanced environment if the demand for it arises. Again, something I have done in the past with Windows
6. No additional CP will be used, Like Plesk or cPanel
Please provide links and specific benchmarks when answering.
Personally I think you are with the wrong mindset. The difference between languages or even OS environments are not so much on performance.
PHP is not slower than any other languages that you are considering. Since the year 2000 is a compiled language. You may want to read the article below that I wrote to understand what this means.
Anyway, for Web programming, most of the time language performance is irrelevant because your scripts will be waiting for I/O operations like database access, file access, network access.
You application performance and scalability depends mostly on architecture. You can achieve good performance and scalability with PHP like in any language, either in Linux or Windows.
It only depends on your own capability of planning a good application architecture and infrastructure.
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