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Can the company please comment on IIS support?

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    #16
    Re: Can the company please comment on IIS support?

    Originally posted by SNusa View Post
    I never asked, but exactly what is the reason for Alpha wanting to move from a5 web server to IIS in the first place? .....Pluses & minuses here for certain!
    I don't see any minuses. IIS is far more robust that the WAS is in it's present incarnation. The WAS supports 25-50 users, although some get more mileage out of it using multiple simultaneous WAS instances and various techniques. The WAS requires a VPS which is relatively expensive whereas a site can be hosted on IIS on the cheap. The more Alpha becomes industry standard, the more appeal it will have to the greater computing world. That doesn't mean throwing out the baby with the bathwater, though.
    Peter
    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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      #17
      Re: Can the company please comment on IIS support?

      Originally posted by Peter.Greulich View Post
      I don't see any minuses. IIS is far more robust that the WAS is in it's present incarnation. The WAS supports 25-50 users, although some get more mileage out of it using multiple simultaneous WAS instances and various techniques. The WAS requires a VPS which is relatively expensive whereas a site can be hosted on IIS on the cheap. The more Alpha becomes industry standard, the more appeal it will have to the greater computing world. That doesn't mean throwing out the baby with the bathwater, though.
      Hi Peter;

      I was aware of many of the advantages of IIS as a whole. ~ Years back, I was in "over my head" with coding "snippets" of ASP. All the other underlying technologies that need to be interwoven into the web world are what eventually "pushed me" back to the desktop side of a5. (And of course, when MS began depreciating ASP for higher level .NET technology, that's what really "threw me out of bounds" with regards to implementing MS technologies.

      That being said: Having not done much with the web server recently (besides reading posts here) I never realized the a5 WAS was only geared to serving only 25 to 50 users. ~ That's a shocker to me! (A "shocker" that changes everything..... Under that pretext, IIS more than makes sense.)

      PS: I had always "just assumed" that a5 WAS was geared to supporting somewhere around 4x those numbers!
      Last edited by SNusa; 02-14-2013, 12:01 AM.
      Robert T. ~ "I enjoy manipulating data... just not my data."
      It's all about the "framework." (I suppose an "a5-induced" hard drive crash is now in order?)
      RELOADED: My current posting activity here merely represents a "Momentary Lapse Of Reason."

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        #18
        Re: Can the company please comment on IIS support?

        Originally posted by Peter.Greulich View Post
        I don't see any minuses. IIS is far more robust that the WAS is in it's present incarnation. The WAS supports 25-50 users, although some get more mileage out of it using multiple simultaneous WAS instances and various techniques. The WAS requires a VPS which is relatively expensive whereas a site can be hosted on IIS on the cheap. The more Alpha becomes industry standard, the more appeal it will have to the greater computing world. That doesn't mean throwing out the baby with the bathwater, though.
        As far as I know, using the WAS does not REQUIRE a VPS.
        The reason to use a VPS is usually greater bandwidth and uptime than you would have with your own server.
        That reasoning would not change by using IIS.

        As far as Alpha5 being a plugin, I would welcome that, assuming we could use that portability with something like
        apache. I would love to be able to host my Alpha5 projects on a linux-based webserver instead of relying on microsoft.
        Gregg
        https://paiza.io is a great site to test and share sql code

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          #19
          Re: Can the company please comment on IIS support?

          A5 "The Core" is written in C++ en C# on the Microsoft Net platform, so i don't think AlphaSoftware will support Apache for the next term. The extra benefits to have a plugin for IIS is that you can have multiple sites vs domains on one IIS server. Not to forget Load balance Cluster Management IIS Fault Tolerance and much more.........

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            #20
            Re: Can the company please comment on IIS support?

            As I remember, A5 did not always utilize the .net system. Alpha made a drastic change to adopt .net.

            That said, based on a a few google searches, the open-source gods in the linux and apache world have
            systems in place to accomodate .net, c++, and c#.

            I know based on current and past experience that apache is quite efficient at hosting multiple domains
            on one server, and that clustering and load balancing are features not limited to IIS.
            Gregg
            https://paiza.io is a great site to test and share sql code

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              #21
              Re: Can the company please comment on IIS support?

              I had no intention to say Apache is bad, otherwise it's very good! What i tried to say is that AlphaSoftware adapted IIS and that i personally see that AlphaSoftware will not support Apache and run on the OS for the years to come but time will tell.

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                #22
                Re: Can the company please comment on IIS support?

                Originally posted by bea2701 View Post
                A5 "The Core" is written in C++ en C# on the Microsoft Net platform, so i don't think AlphaSoftware will support Apache for the next term. The extra benefits to have a plugin for IIS is that you can have multiple sites vs domains on one IIS server. Not to forget Load balance Cluster Management IIS Fault Tolerance and much more.........
                ~I believe the multiple domain issue has just been solved with the usage of the Abyss server for windows! (I just love 3'rd party solutions.)
                In the past, maybe 4 years ago: I had used this server, and as I recall it worked rather nicely.... "Spec-wise" (& "review wise") it was the top of it's class for a lightweight alternative to IIS. I wouldn't have chosen it otherwise.

                I found this thread here on the forum which might be of interest: http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...proxy-built-in

                Note: I'm quite certain the Abyss server is nowhere's near "enterprise thoroughbred material" but for small projects, it seemed almost perfect at the time! In it's present state, it might turn out to be a great fit with the existing a5 WAS? ~ I don't have the time now to "mess with it", but I'd love to get some feedback on this possibility!
                Last edited by SNusa; 02-14-2013, 10:58 AM.
                Robert T. ~ "I enjoy manipulating data... just not my data."
                It's all about the "framework." (I suppose an "a5-induced" hard drive crash is now in order?)
                RELOADED: My current posting activity here merely represents a "Momentary Lapse Of Reason."

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