Which machine should HTTPD be served off?

[Josh Huston]

Can you help me here... we were having a major disputation about which 
httpd server is better in terms of reliablity, speed, CGI scripts and how 
stable the software is.  I say nay to httpd server served off the PC 
machines.  I'm currently running my server off the AIX Unix system and is 
very reliable.  However, we are encountering space problems and one of 
our information system specialists said that we should divide up some 
resources, some on the AIX and others on his PC machine.  I am totally 
opposed to the idea in terms of potential heavy traffic and it is known 
that the httpd server crash on PC machine more frequently than the more 
stable httpd software on AIX.  And also, his machine may not be 
available at some period of time while the AIX machine is available 24 
hours a day.  In short, I need to prepare a short presentation to those 
specialist about the advantage of using more stable software and server. 
 They refuse to listen to me merely because they're a college graduate 
and I'm only a student.  So please give me some input!  I will be greatly 
appreciated!  I will gather all replies and produce a summary and post it 
here.

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Josh Huston                           Internet: hust0011 at gold.tc.umn.edu
University of Minnesota Libraries               libts at gold.tc.umn.edu
WWW Developer & CGI Programmer
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