Windows web servers, back in the NT4 days use to have a very bad
reputation and uptime wasn't to good, which is why allot of people use
Unix based servers for their web sites.
However, over the last 5 years Windows servers have got allot better,
with Windows 2000 and 2003. So now having your site on a Windows web
server much more stable.
Because of this more and more people are using Windows based web
servers, NOT less as you seem to think. Espaicvally with Win 2003 web
server edition making Windows web hosting much cheaper.
Web Wiz Forums is written in ASP for those people using Windows based web servers.
If you are on a Unix based server, then there are 100's of PHP based
forums out there, like phpBB, Invision, YABB, and many, many, more.
If I were to make a Web Wiz Forums version in PHP, not only would it
take along time to do (maybe even years to get up to the standard of
the ASP version is now), it would also make it much more complicated to
support two
code bases, but also it would be a complete waste of time against the
number of really good PHP based forums out there.
If you want a cheap Windows based web host, that also offers MS SQL
Server to give Web Wiz Forrms the best performance, then checkout our own hosting at
www.webwiz.net/webhosting it's just $6.99 per month inc. SQL Server.
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