Running a website using Windows Vista

Hi:

Is it possible to run an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application on Windows Vista
Ultimate 32-bit using its built in IIS? Of course, the website would be on
the Internet. I don't expect many visitors to my site - atmost around 40000
visitors per month. Will I face any inherent scalability limitations in Vista
that would prevent me from doing this?

Thanks.

Vista supports 10 simultaneous connections, and one visitor could use
several at one time. With 40,000 visitors per month, you're not going to
have any luck.

"Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EEB9BE30-55AB-4416-9DD9-6E3033B9FEA9@microsoft.com...
| Hi:
|
| Is it possible to run an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application on Windows Vista
| Ultimate 32-bit using its built in IIS? Of course, the website would be on
| the Internet. I don't expect many visitors to my site - atmost around
40000
| visitors per month. Will I face any inherent scalability limitations in
Vista
| that would prevent me from doing this?
|
| Thanks.
|

Thanks.

Would you know how many connections Microsoft Small Business Server 2003
supports? Would it be adequate for my 40000 visitors per month requirement?


"Tom Willett" wrote:

> Vista supports 10 simultaneous connections, and one visitor could use
> several at one time. With 40,000 visitors per month, you're not going to
> have any luck.
>
> "Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EEB9BE30-55AB-4416-9DD9-6E3033B9FEA9@microsoft.com...
> | Hi:
> |
> | Is it possible to run an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application on Windows Vista
> | Ultimate 32-bit using its built in IIS? Of course, the website would be on
> | the Internet. I don't expect many visitors to my site - atmost around
> 40000
> | visitors per month. Will I face any inherent scalability limitations in
> Vista
> | that would prevent me from doing this?
> |
> | Thanks.
> |
>
>
>

"Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EEB9BE30-55AB-4416-9DD9-6E3033B9FEA9@microsoft.com...
> Hi:
>
> Is it possible to run an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application on Windows Vista
> Ultimate 32-bit using its built in IIS? Of course, the website would be on
> the Internet. I don't expect many visitors to my site - atmost around
> 40000
> visitors per month. Will I face any inherent scalability limitations in
> Vista
> that would prevent me from doing this?

Windows 2003 server is a Web solution platform and not Vista. Your site is
going to be nothing but hack bait and a jumping off point to attack other
networks and Web servers on the Internet.

If the O/S, Web server, file system, registry, user accounts, Web
applications and non Web solutions on the NT based O/S such as Vista and its
predecessors are not secured/harden to attack, which there are entire books
that cover these security aspects with professionals hardly being able to
implement them on a NT based O/S or they can't do it period and are ignorant
in securing the platform to face the Internet, then it's just hack bait
you're putting on the Internet.

Just like one shouldn't put up a Web site using XP pro to face the Internet,
because it's not a Web server solution and it's just a workstation O/S, the
same holds true for Vista.

It's ok to take these O/S workstation platforms and develop Web solutions in
a protected environment, behind a FW. But to take a workstation platform and
make that platform face the Internet as a Web server is questionable to say
the least about it.

What you should be doing is using a Web hosting service to host your Web
solutions.

You had better also check with your ISP. If you don't have business class
DSL you may find that they will shut you down. Most ISP will not allow web
hosting on home class DSL or cable.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6C969F2B-BE33-4AE3-A228-232B94703B8B@microsoft.com...
> Thanks.
>
> Would you know how many connections Microsoft Small Business Server 2003
> supports? Would it be adequate for my 40000 visitors per month
> requirement?
>
>
> "Tom Willett" wrote:
>
>> Vista supports 10 simultaneous connections, and one visitor could use
>> several at one time. With 40,000 visitors per month, you're not going to
>> have any luck.
>>
>> "Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:EEB9BE30-55AB-4416-9DD9-6E3033B9FEA9@microsoft.com...
>> | Hi:
>> |
>> | Is it possible to run an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application on Windows Vista
>> | Ultimate 32-bit using its built in IIS? Of course, the website would be
>> on
>> | the Internet. I don't expect many visitors to my site - atmost around
>> 40000
>> | visitors per month. Will I face any inherent scalability limitations in
>> Vista
>> | that would prevent me from doing this?
>> |
>> | Thanks.
>> |
>>
>>
>>

10 for XP
Vista lets you set the limit, yourself.
It works just fine, for me.

"Tom Willett" wrote:

> Vista supports 10 simultaneous connections, and one visitor could use
> several at one time. With 40,000 visitors per month, you're not going to
> have any luck.
>
> "Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EEB9BE30-55AB-4416-9DD9-6E3033B9FEA9@microsoft.com...
> | Hi:
> |
> | Is it possible to run an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application on Windows Vista
> | Ultimate 32-bit using its built in IIS? Of course, the website would be on
> | the Internet. I don't expect many visitors to my site - atmost around
> 40000
> | visitors per month. Will I face any inherent scalability limitations in
> Vista
> | that would prevent me from doing this?
> |
> | Thanks.
> |
>
>
>

"Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6C969F2B-BE33-4AE3-A228-232B94703B8B@microsoft.com...
> Thanks.
>
> Would you know how many connections Microsoft Small Business Server 2003
> supports? Would it be adequate for my 40000 visitors per month
> requirement?
>

You had better find a business class ISP that's going to allow you to run
that Web server. Most ISP(s) used by the home user sector are not going to
allow you to suck up their bandwidth like that.

They look for Web servers operating on their network, and they send you an
email stating that you take it down or have your account terminated.

I do have business Internet access. I run a small business.

Would you know if Windows Small Business Server 2003 is adequate for my
40,000 visitors per month website?

Thanks.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> You had better also check with your ISP. If you don't have business class
> DSL you may find that they will shut you down. Most ISP will not allow web
> hosting on home class DSL or cable.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
>
>
> "Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6C969F2B-BE33-4AE3-A228-232B94703B8B@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Would you know how many connections Microsoft Small Business Server 2003
> > supports? Would it be adequate for my 40000 visitors per month
> > requirement?
> >
> >
> > "Tom Willett" wrote:
> >
> >> Vista supports 10 simultaneous connections, and one visitor could use
> >> several at one time. With 40,000 visitors per month, you're not going to
> >> have any luck.
> >>
> >> "Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:EEB9BE30-55AB-4416-9DD9-6E3033B9FEA9@microsoft.com...
> >> | Hi:
> >> |
> >> | Is it possible to run an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application on Windows Vista
> >> | Ultimate 32-bit using its built in IIS? Of course, the website would be
> >> on
> >> | the Internet. I don't expect many visitors to my site - atmost around
> >> 40000
> >> | visitors per month. Will I face any inherent scalability limitations in
> >> Vista
> >> | that would prevent me from doing this?
> >> |
> >> | Thanks.
> >> |
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>

Hi:

How do I set the connections limit in Vista Ultimate?

Thanks.

"Techno Mage" wrote:

> 10 for XP
> Vista lets you set the limit, yourself.
> It works just fine, for me.
>
> "Tom Willett" wrote:
>
> > Vista supports 10 simultaneous connections, and one visitor could use
> > several at one time. With 40,000 visitors per month, you're not going to
> > have any luck.
> >
> > "Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:EEB9BE30-55AB-4416-9DD9-6E3033B9FEA9@microsoft.com...
> > | Hi:
> > |
> > | Is it possible to run an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application on Windows Vista
> > | Ultimate 32-bit using its built in IIS? Of course, the website would be on
> > | the Internet. I don't expect many visitors to my site - atmost around
> > 40000
> > | visitors per month. Will I face any inherent scalability limitations in
> > Vista
> > | that would prevent me from doing this?
> > |
> > | Thanks.
> > |
> >
> >
> >

My upload bandwidth, or in other words, what my Web server will be able to
serve, is between 600 kbps and 700 kbps. Note that those are Kilo
Bits/second, not Kilo Bytes/second.

Is this adequate for running a Web site that has 40,000 visitors per month?

Thanks.

"Techno Mage" wrote:

> 10 for XP
> Vista lets you set the limit, yourself.
> It works just fine, for me.
>
> "Tom Willett" wrote:
>
> > Vista supports 10 simultaneous connections, and one visitor could use
> > several at one time. With 40,000 visitors per month, you're not going to
> > have any luck.
> >
> > "Jibey Jacob" <JibeyJacob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:EEB9BE30-55AB-4416-9DD9-6E3033B9FEA9@microsoft.com...
> > | Hi:
> > |
> > | Is it possible to run an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application on Windows Vista
> > | Ultimate 32-bit using its built in IIS? Of course, the website would be on
> > | the Internet. I don't expect many visitors to my site - atmost around
> > 40000
> > | visitors per month. Will I face any inherent scalability limitations in
> > Vista
> > | that would prevent me from doing this?
> > |
> > | Thanks.
> > |
> >
> >
> >