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Colin
May 26th, 2001, 12:44 PM
What exactly is the difference between hosting on NT and on Win2k?

Early this year (or was it late last year?) I read something about Delphi.com first switching from NT to Win2k and then back to NT again because their servers crashed frequently. What is that supposed to mean then?
bungo
May 27th, 2001, 02:51 AM
I won't bore you with all of the differences, you can find them on MS's site. Win2k has SIGNIFICANT improvements over NT4.0 making it ideal for hosting.
Colin
May 27th, 2001, 06:42 AM
My friend (who I mentioned in a previous thread) signed up with a Fasthosts reseller :rolleyes: and they told him that he would be hosted on NT, but Fasthosts only offers Win2k for their resellers (or do they?). Now, why would they have to lie about that?

I actually once considered signing up with that reseller myself (hey, they charge about 20 pounds a year...and that was before I knew about resellers anyway), but at the end of last month, my friend got booted off because his site (a game site) was allegedly using up an excess of 190 pounds worth of bandwidth, which is ridiculous because his site does not even have any large files (e.g. video/audio files, .EXE/.ZIP/.LZH files, etc etc) because the reseller's AUP forbids those.

Surprisingly, this reseller is not Tacid :lol:
Mr Chunder
May 28th, 2001, 05:05 PM
Originally posted by Colin
My friend (who I mentioned in a previous thread) signed up with a Fasthosts reseller :rolleyes: and they told him that he would be hosted on NT, but Fasthosts only offers Win2k for their resellers (or do they?). Now, why would they have to lie about that?


Well it could have been an honest mistake ! I'm in the process of porting a large site across from NT to Win2K and generally speaking, I would expect the vast majority of small sites (simple ASP, html) to move between NT and Win2K with very little problems. Big sites, there are issues.

The host may have meant the same thing - NT or Win2K. For all intents and purposes, the average small website on NT will not mind being run on either NT or Win2K so it oculd be viewed as the same platform.

We are seeing the end of NT as a hosting platform since Microsoft are cutting back on its support and hosts may want to get people off NT and onto Win2K