I noticed that it's PHP which can be used on windows. However it's possible that some linux only functions are called breaking compatiblity. Does anyone know for sure whether this will or won't run on windows?
Thanks in Advance,
Christian Blackburn

Yep, it runs perfectly under Windows. PHP is available in a Win32 installer package which automatically integrates itself into several popular webservers, IIS included. I ran it on Win32 for a while before I realised that IIS and mySQL were responsible for consuming over 100Mb RAM.

Wow that's a lot of RAM overhead. If I wasn't broke and didn't have only 256MB of RAM I'd replicate that part of my website (presuming I'll include it). This messageforum really is a slick program and is virtually bug free. Are you the webmaster of this site Admiral?

Hey I just noticed I finally achieved Senior Member. Wooo Hooo! "I'd like to take a moment and thank all the little people I stepped on to get here :D, Oh I can't take it it's just too much, I'm so happy . No seriously, is that based on number of posts or duration of membership?

Thanks,
Christian 8) Senior Member ;(

No, that would be Phillip. This board runs phpBB and its free under the Gnu Public Licence. You can grab the latest version from http://www.phpbb.com

The funny thing is that while IIS and mySQL consume 100Mb RAM under Windows they consume hardly any under Linux. I moved my test board over to my gateway (a 486DX4/100 with only 32Mb RAM and a 64Mb swap partition IIRC) and when accessed from the internet you can barely tell its a 486.

That speaks worlds about Linux's system requirements and the relative simplicity of their hosting applications. By simplicity I mean fewer layers not missing functionality. The only thing I really hate about linux servers is the case sensitivity. Apache should really compensate for that whilst running on Linux. Does Apache 2.0 do that? I know almost no one is even using it yet, because everyone wants to wait for it to mature. Are there some usuability issues to? I think I remember reading that all the plugins don't work and or have to be rewritten.
Thanks for the reply Admiral,
Christian