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[SirAndy]

ok, here's a silly PHP question ...

any given time (with traffic on the BBS) i see between 6 and 15 instances of PHP.EXE in the task manager. they all eat up memory and ressources ...

is there a way to tell PHP to run through the IIS-API ???
that should channel it all through 1 thread, right? same as it does with ASP or CGI ...

does PHP have the ability to run as a IIS extension? and if so, how do i configure it for that?
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/idea.gif) Andy

[lapuwali]

QUOTE (ErnieDV @ Feb 14 2005, 10:23 PM)

This is for servers. We host the web site with an external ISP. Besides file & print services, internally I'm running Exchange 5.5 and need to be able to move to a "webmail" setup so that folks without regular workstatons can get email and calendar, plus those who travel need to be able to get to their mail so I need to set up something secure with a DMZ. Most of the servers for the webmail setup will be dual processor Pentium II systems. I've got a couple of software products that have to run on Windows servers so Windows wouldn't completely go away. The issue for me is that I won't have any funds for at least a year for new Windows licenses or for Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition (which is needed for for newer versions of Outlook Web Access).

Go with Windows front to back. Trying to mix systems increases the headaches, and just isn't worth it for a small shop. Trying to get Linux based mail systems to operate with Windows desktops is possible, but far from turn-key. As for the licensing issue, just keep adding as much memory as you can to the servers you have, and keep piling the stuff on. One cannot get fast AND cheap, so you're going for slow and cheap until you can afford fast. IMHO, it will ultimately cost more in time and labor to get a Linux-based email system for Windows working than it would to buy another Windows license. This really sucks, in my opinion, but there it is. There are some efforts in the Linux world to provide enough of Exchange to make Outlook happy, but as far as I know, none of it works 100%, yet.

One very cheap solution that might work for you w/o Exchance upgrades is simply to use some of the free or semi-free infrastructure available from places like Yahoo and Google for web-based email, calendaring, etc. Yahoo offers email using your domain for some small fee (like $35/year per account), and I presume Gmail and others do this, too. (Full disclosure: I work for Yahoo). This is hardly secure (depends on how much you trust the vendor), but it can't be beat for ease of setup and maintenance.