When will they learn

[Stang2be]

Market dept decides its time to get the company website redone. I'm the network admin and technical guru for the company. I strongly recommend to have it developed in php/mysql. Of course they don't listen and have it written is asp/.net and now gripe the company wants 500/month to maintain not including any graphic changes.

Now also if we ever bring it in house I have to put in a SQL server.

Anyone out there do web dev on MS platform?

[xtremcoder]

our website is powered by ASP :D

[01WhiteCobra]

$500 a month isn't that much if the contracted company is hosting + maintaining the website.

Ask the marketing department to stop bitching about $500/month and cut out the three martini lunches and they will have paid for the intranet site.

[AbecX]

PHP and MySQL would've been cross platform comptiable. When will companies learn that linux, php, mysql, and apache mean stabilty, secureness, and cheapness. :confused:

I'm glad a I work for a company whos internal servers run OpenBSD, and whos client base is 99% Unix/Linux and opensource friendly.

[01WhiteCobra]

Originally posted by AbecX
PHP and MySQL would've been cross platform comptiable. When will companies learn that linux, php, mysql, and apache mean stabilty, secureness, and cheapness. :confused:


That is what I'm doing.

I develop on my Windows box (PHP/MySQL/Apache) and put them on the Linux server when I'm comfortable with it.

I can still code and debug faster on the Windows box.

[Stang2be]

They are not hosting the site. Hosting is being done elsewhere.

[01WhiteCobra]

Originally posted by Stang2be
They are not hosting the site. Hosting is being done elsewhere.

For 500/mo how many hours of time are they getting? 5? 10? 20?

We have a ASP (as application service provider, not Active Server Pages) that we change 60K a year for, or 5K a month. :D