Re:A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon
by Fjolsvith on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:44AM
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Having rolled my own ecommerce store on Ubuntu LAMP for several years, I finally got frustrated at the difficulty of recovering from power failures/spikes that hose it's file system after the UPS died. On average it takes 8 days to reconfigure and restore the new installation with all the lineup of products being tweaked to perfection.
This last time, I put Windows 10 and WAMP on the server and was amazed. I was tweaking products after a couple of hours. Things like ssl certificate, smtp/pop3 server, remote desktop all installed and worked with no arduous arcane CLI commands or hours spent researching tasks required.
Bonus: Robust antivirus and easy backups with a simple DOS script run from the task scheduler.
With only one buyer a week and 250 unique daily visitors, I don't need the speed of LAMP for my estore.
This last time, I put Windows 10 and WAMP on the server and was amazed. I was tweaking products after a couple of hours. Things like ssl certificate, smtp/pop3 server, remote desktop all installed and worked with no arduous arcane CLI commands or hours spent researching tasks required.
Bonus: Robust antivirus and easy backups with a simple DOS script run from the task scheduler.
With only one buyer a week and 250 unique daily visitors, I don't need the speed of LAMP for my estore.