Why IIS Sucks
Recently, I had to change my web host from a free host that gave me IIS with PHP and MySQL access, to a host that runs linux+apache with cPanel, PHP, and MySQL. I’m not really sure if it was just this host of what, but IIS had almost no way for me to administer my hosted space myself, every time I wanted to make a tiny change, I had to contact someone that ran the server and wait for them to do it. I couldn’t even change permissions on my directories. My other quip with IIS was the lack of support for .htaccess files.
As I moved further and further into Wordpress, I found it leveraged it’s dynamically published system with judicious use of .htaccess files for pseudo redirects. With absolutely no support for this, it quickly became apparent that the features I wanted to implement simply would not work on a Windows based server.
So I’m back on a linux system where I belong, it’s $10 a month, but that’s bad, especially since I can set up and test new ideas on the fly without having to wait for new features to be enabled or configured for me. Hopefully their uptime is solid, we’ll see.
