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Re: Why does Roblox use Windows for its website server computers?

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Silvu is not online. Silvu
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26 Mar 2012 03:43 AM
FreeBSD is much better for it.
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Radioaktiivinen is not online. Radioaktiivinen
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26 Mar 2012 06:21 AM
Because they use 50 different windows technologies on their website so i guess it works better with a windows platform? :D
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LocalChum is not online. LocalChum
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26 Mar 2012 10:58 AM
Radio pretty much summed it up there. They use ASP.NET, PowerShell, Microsoft SQL Server, and a whole load of other Microsoft technologies. Also, Windows is generally easier to administer and debug, while Linux-based systems need a highly skilled professional to do that.
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Bubby4j is not online. Bubby4j
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26 Mar 2012 12:44 PM
Windows = user friendly
Linux = how do I do that again?
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Silvu is not online. Silvu
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26 Mar 2012 02:14 PM
BSD =/= Linux
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Silvu is not online. Silvu
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26 Mar 2012 02:22 PM
And even Microsoft uses FreeBSD for a ton of their servers.

That says something right there.

And if they need a Linux professional they can hire one.
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t6e is not online. t6e
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26 Mar 2012 02:41 PM
^ But then they have to push even more builders club in our faces to pay that guy.
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26 Mar 2012 02:57 PM
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Silvu is not online. Silvu
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26 Mar 2012 02:59 PM
@The

I'm not.

Windows just isn't as good as FreeBSD for server stuff.
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t6e is not online. t6e
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26 Mar 2012 03:00 PM
Explain why you don't think it's good for a server. Don't like IIS? Stick Apache on it.
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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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26 Mar 2012 03:04 PM
With Linux (or any other UNIX-like system) you can easily get awesome open source software for servers which is very refined. They all integrate well, too. SSH, VNC, MySQL, with nice tools specifically designed for remote servers.
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Bubby4j is not online. Bubby4j
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26 Mar 2012 03:31 PM
Windows has SSH, VNC, and MySQL too. Plus there's some things it can do that linux cannot (render flash files to image)
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JulienDethurens is not online. JulienDethurens
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26 Mar 2012 03:45 PM
"Plus there's some things it can do that linux cannot"

And Linux can do some things that Windows can't do.
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myrkos is not online. myrkos
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26 Mar 2012 03:51 PM
>Windows has SSH, VNC, and MySQL too.

But all those are 3rd party stuff that don't mix well together, and don't integrate with the actual OS.

>Plus there's some things it can do that linux cannot (render flash files to image)

I bet Linux can do that:

swfrender file.swf -o output.png
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Bubby4j is not online. Bubby4j
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02 Apr 2012 08:36 AM
@myrkos
It doesn't run the actionscript, such that is needed for rendering a 3D engine.
It doesn't have flash vars, such that is needed for passing variables to actionscript.


It has VERY basic swf rendering. It simply gets what's already there, not what would be there if actionscript worked.
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