WebWiz Popularity
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Topic: WebWiz Popularity
Posted By: a_user
Subject: WebWiz Popularity
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 3:42am
Why does Web Wiz not appear to be very popular across the internet? There are thousands of forums based running phpbb, vbulletin, invision, simple forums, etc but very few running web wiz. Whats the deal? I like web wiz for its simplistic design and easy to modify your web site around with out a bunch of knowledge of css but I am trying to understand why more successful forums are not running it?
Is it because its asp and not php? I dont see why that would make a big difference aside from the easy and free access to linux based distro's and the use of php?
Thoughts?
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 9:54am
Most web sites are on Linux servers who still have the main market share, which is why most people use PHP based boards.
Windows web hosting is usually more expensive because Microsofts licensing isn't cheap, nor easy to understand. You have to have SPLA license with Microsoft to be able to sell windows web hosting which you must pay on a monthly basis and works out more expensive than buying the OS outright over an 18 month period. Also Europeon based Windows hosting is usually more expensive as we are charged a higher price in Europe for Microsoft licenses.
This I'm afraid means that most web sites are on Linux servers as they are much cheaper to run and so tend to have PHP based forums as ASP doesn't run well on Linux.
Until Microsoft lower their licensing costs, make licensing easier to understand, and quicker to implement, I can't see this situation changing.
For example you can go and grab a Linux distro for free right now by downloading it. With Windows you can't go out a buy Windows 2003 server for £450 unless it's for just your own site, if you want to host other peoples sites you need an SPLA license. This can take 2 months or more to sortout and get the media, you are then paying for the OS on a monthly biases and have paid for it in full every 18 months. The only advantage with the SPLA is you do spread the cost of buying the OS and can upgrade to the new version when it comes available.
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Posted By: a_user
Date Posted: 08 June 2007 at 1:55pm
Thanks for the info. Makes sense to me.
I have been aware of the this issue that has been a holding a lot of ISP's back for the past couple years but I didnt think of it as such in terms of available hostee's for asp forum hosting.
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