A lot of *nix hosts are offering Chillisoft ASP these days. Does anyone think its any good? ive used it on a real simple script and it just screwed up. my opinion is that Chillisoft is crap and gives false hope to ASP'ers turning *nix.

What I've heard is that it's the best one for Linux,
well....compared to mod_asp etc etc...

but then again, I heard it's crappy...
But hey, ASP IS NT stuff... so...no wonder :)

It's not bad except for a few *minor* things...

It manages memory VERY poorly

Remember: Call response.write("") is just Response.write("") in chilisoft

It DOES NOT come with the ASPMAIL component (host has to purchase seperately from Sun - $300 or so)

Other than that, we haven't had a problem with it. :)

Then again, I know people who work for companies that use NT hosting and from their experiences, ASP itself is just ******. Learn PHP, you'll thank me later.

Originally posted by Orpheus1539
...ASP itself is just ******....

Couldn't agree more :D

We have been offering ChiliSoft ASP for our clients for more than
a year but I really wish we never started supporting it.

For a long time only RH Linux 6.2 with Apache 1.3.12 was supported. Even today ChiliSoft ASP won't (at least oficially) run
on anything newer than Apache 1.3.14.

Even though Apache 7.1 and Apache 1.3.19 had been out
for a long time. Since we started off supporting ChiliSoft ASP
on all our Linux hosting servers this was a big problem for us.
Users which didn't use ChiliSoft ASP didn't want to use old
versions of MySQL, Apache (and even PHP) just because
ChiliSoft ASP didn't cooperate with newer versions of these
applications.

In the end we had to move all our ChiliSoft ASP users to a
dedicated box so that they can live their own life with historic
Apache and MySQL versions. This can also represent a big
security risk of course.

ChiliSoft works in slow motion when it comes to updates and
patches. Certain things just don't work (caching problems,
unstable database connections etc) and ChiliSoft techs knows
it and has admitted it. Nothing happens. There has been a
db connection issue going on since the first release (if a user
makes a small error in his connection string he takes the entire
server down), but ChiliSoft blames a third party supplier.

A ChiliSoft ASP server is much more unstable than a server
without ChiliSoft ASP, so run it on a dedicated ASP box if you
absolutely need it. In my opinion ASP is made for Windows and
it should be kept that way.

i'd agree with most of above except the ASP is ****** remark. that just shows how naíve some people are.

One major advantage of ASP is that it gives VB programmers an easy step into web-programming and can do anything PHP can do. But please not that debate.

on another note- why was this post moved? i thought it was ok where i put it.

i've been considering adding it on my unix servers but it really leaves a lot to be diesired. i am thinking it may be better to just use windows 2000 for it.

Originally posted by The Laughing Cow
A lot of *nix hosts are offering Chillisoft ASP these days. Does anyone think its any good? ive used it on a real simple script and it just screwed up. my opinion is that Chillisoft is crap and gives false hope to ASP'ers turning *nix.

Its better then Apache_ASP thats for sure.