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Reason: windows has either far more or far fewer arms, depending on how you count
03-07-2012
, 05:02 PM
Has anyone been following the GitHub security issue? To be fair, its more of a Rails fail (FRails 
), but an interesting read. Goes to show that nothing is really safe. Just lucky that no one injected malicious code.
https://github.com/blog/1069-respons...closure-policy
), but an interesting read. Goes to show that nothing is really safe. Just lucky that no one injected malicious code.https://github.com/blog/1069-respons...closure-policy
03-07-2012
, 05:51 PM
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Hah..I wrote a Poker Paradime hand history scraper for a 2+2er a couple years ago.
So I am building a medium sized Django intranet site at work that is going to replace a whole whack of ad hoc Excel spreadsheets and applications. It's going great so far and everybody is very excited to get it up and running.
I have a fair bit of experience running Django apps with nginx/Apache in Linux and that would be my preferred (and in fact the Django communities preferred) method of deployment. There will be less than 100 users of the application and I know this could be done very cheaply with modest hardware.
However, due to factors beyond my control, we are being forced to use IIS & SQL Server. It is possible to run Django on IIS but it's a bit hacky and certainly not ideal.
Anyways the IT department gives us a quote of over $13000 (!!!) for a dual core, 4GB RAM server with Windows Server, IIS and SQL Server.
Can some of you with Windows server experience tell me if this is totally insane or not? I don't have a breakdown of the costs, but will most of this be from software license costs?
FWIW it's probaby $11000 more than I would have estimated for an equivalent LAMP setup.
So I am building a medium sized Django intranet site at work that is going to replace a whole whack of ad hoc Excel spreadsheets and applications. It's going great so far and everybody is very excited to get it up and running.
I have a fair bit of experience running Django apps with nginx/Apache in Linux and that would be my preferred (and in fact the Django communities preferred) method of deployment. There will be less than 100 users of the application and I know this could be done very cheaply with modest hardware.
However, due to factors beyond my control, we are being forced to use IIS & SQL Server. It is possible to run Django on IIS but it's a bit hacky and certainly not ideal.
Anyways the IT department gives us a quote of over $13000 (!!!) for a dual core, 4GB RAM server with Windows Server, IIS and SQL Server.
Can some of you with Windows server experience tell me if this is totally insane or not? I don't have a breakdown of the costs, but will most of this be from software license costs?
FWIW it's probaby $11000 more than I would have estimated for an equivalent LAMP setup.
I guess your IT staff is just lazy and they only know Windoes/IIS/SQL Server and can't be bothered admining other stuff? This happens a lot and costs companies soooo much money from my experience.
Maybe you can offer to support the server yourself for 5k/year if IT doesn't want to do it lol.
At the very least you should outline that you could still go Apache/MySQL|PostgrSQL without the L if they don't want to support Linux.
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Has anyone been following the GitHub security issue? To be fair, its more of a Rails fail (FRails ), but an interesting read. Goes to show that nothing is really safe. Just lucky that no one injected malicious code.
https://github.com/blog/1069-respons...closure-policy
), but an interesting read. Goes to show that nothing is really safe. Just lucky that no one injected malicious code.https://github.com/blog/1069-respons...closure-policy
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