Milan Babuskov wrote:

> Alan McDonald wrote:
>
>>Strange, I find my Win2003 Server (350MHz) better than my win2000 server
>>(1GHz), both are improved using isapi module over the cgi but neither are
>>anywhere near as good as my old 200MHz linux box.
>
>
> I have a somewhat different experience. Win2000 server worked flawlessly
> (almost as Linux), while with Win2003 I experienced the problem you
> described (getting the first page) so much that it became annoying for
> users. And I couldn't find any way to tweak the system to avoid it.
>
>
>>The differences are stark especially after a period of no use and measuring
>>the time taken to deliver the first page. - With a site getting good traffic
>>(constant hits) performance is good on all but for low traffic sites the Win
>>environment is dreadful to first kick in.
>
>
> I can only confirm this too.
>
> Regards,
>

You could try apache + php on windows if don't want to install it on
linux , it works better than iis + isapi module and yes 2003 is slower
than 2000 (there were some benchmarks somewhere)