UNIX vs NT web environment scalability?

[NEIL]

Can anyone advise?

We are about to develop a web site that we hope will eventually attract millions of visitors a day. I want advice on choosing the development environment that will best scale to cope with this volume.

Is it safe to use MS Frontpage and Active Server Pages on an NT Server - or will this choke up when demand gets heavy? In that case I presume the better alternative is UNIX hosting.[nbsp][nbsp]Could you recommend a good site design/development tool for the UNIX environment?

Thanks

Neil Pharazyn<!-- NO_AUTO_LINK -->

[Charles Capps]

It depends in part on how much of the content is doing to by created on the fly.[nbsp][nbsp]NT is far better at serving static HTML pages than complex content creation scripts, though a few ASP trinkets here and there couldn't hurt.[nbsp][nbsp]Unix is far better under high load when dynamic content is being generated.

[NEIL]

Thanks Charles. You confirm my suspicion that ASP might slow to a crawl if millions of visitors sent a request back to the server database.

Presumably if we used a Unix server the requests would go back to an Oracle database or similar.

Can you suggest where I can find out more about developing Web sites hosted under Unix? And do I use development tools like Cold Fusion or what? As a developer using Microsoft tools, the world beyond Microsoft is pretty much a mystery to me.

Thanks.
Neil

[Charles Capps]

Unfortunately, I've made a point to avoid all development tools...[nbsp][nbsp]I'm much more of a program-it-yourself sorta guy.[nbsp][nbsp]:)

I'm not really sure how CF will hold up under that strain...[nbsp][nbsp]And the last time I checked, it was for NT only.[nbsp][nbsp]Perhaps that has changed?[nbsp][nbsp]