WAMP Web Servers

Are any of you using a WAMP platform for your web servers? We are potentially redesigning our website, and the vendor that has *ahem* been selected for us only develops for open source platforms (and we don't know Linux, hence the "W" in WAMP).

If so, any tips or pitfalls?

Thanks,

Britt

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  • I would stay away from WAMP for business critical operations if at all possible.  While I do use it for some personal projects it can be unpredictable. If you want to stay a windows shop then I would make the business case to find a developer that develops for IIS.

    -Rich

  • I agree with all of the above.

    Also - are you planning on hosting the entire website or just the WebAPI service? If you are just going to be exposing the service it <shouldn't> matter what platform the web developers use. You can happily host the API on your Windows stack and they can host and build whatever they want.

    Also - you can run PHP or Perl on IIS6/7: http://php.iis.net/ so since you are already going to be installing Windows why bother with Apache?

    Good luck!

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  • I agree with all of the above.

    Also - are you planning on hosting the entire website or just the WebAPI service? If you are just going to be exposing the service it <shouldn't> matter what platform the web developers use. You can happily host the API on your Windows stack and they can host and build whatever they want.

    Also - you can run PHP or Perl on IIS6/7: http://php.iis.net/ so since you are already going to be installing Windows why bother with Apache?

    Good luck!

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