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Please suggest the best platform to build up a ‘twitter’ like page/networking site.?
Posted under Setup Twitter by adminI want to build up a ‘twitter’ like page/networking site. Please suggest the best platform to build up the content webpages and also what will be the setup requirements to start from a scratch? Also, please quote an appx. cost of investment for the same.
Are there any websites where I can get some more info about this?
There is of course no easy answer. If you expect it to get a lot of heavy use, then the LAMP stack is recommended — Linux Apache MySQL PHP. Windows is NOT as good a networking OS. With some of the best programmers in the world, the London stock Exchange was down for most of Sept. 8, 2008 — a very heavy trading day worldwide. They had a Windows solution running their servers and the police are investigating possible deliberate sabotage of their current move to Linux — Nothing is confirmed of course except the police are investigating and they could rule otherwise but they haven’t — at least publicly — yet. So if this is for an intranet — a page on a Local Area Network — Windows might be good, but otherwise start with Linux. Apache and Php shouldn’t need explanation. Look them up. MySQL used to be Open Source and in theory still is, but is currently owned by Oracle which seems to be changing the licensing, so I would definitely look up ownership issues.
To get back to basics, and sorry, I can’t give you a specific cost estimate, you need a server. That itself can set you back some dozens of thousands of dollars. As I said you would need Linux, and most likely you would need someone with a consulting contract. The oldest company for this sort of thing still around is RHEL which distributes their RHEL with a consulting contract which can cost several thousand dollars. This is probably the best OS for this sort of thing, and there is a free alternative:
http://www.centos.org
Yes there is also Fedora but Fedora is the testing version of RHEL — it will crash occasionally and you should know that before you use it and tell them when it does so they can fix it and make it stable enough to become the new RHEL. Centos is RHEL recompiled to remove the proprietary trademarks and copyrighted materials which are not covered by the GPL and other Open Source licenses — ID software released the engine to games like Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake as Open Source but that doesn’t mean the games themselves are — levels, artwork and characters are trademarks and copyrighted materials. RHEL and ID have released this code under the licenses for the code they distribute. Red Hat talks about some "pirated" software — but what they mean is RHEL software which was obtained without the consulting contracts. Centos is legal and legitimate and as part of most consulting contracts Red Hat will support it. It is not pirated software and is a good choice when you want a version of the OS they don’t support directly any more. Or you can go elsewhere for a consulting contract. Obviously being or hiring a RHCE is a good idea (Red Hat Certified Engineer). And should give you an idea of the budget you are talking about.
There is of course no easy answer. If you expect it to get a lot of heavy use, then the LAMP stack is recommended — Linux Apache MySQL PHP. Windows is NOT as good a networking OS. With some of the best programmers in the world, the London stock Exchange was down for most of Sept. 8, 2008 — a very heavy trading day worldwide. They had a Windows solution running their servers and the police are investigating possible deliberate sabotage of their current move to Linux — Nothing is confirmed of course except the police are investigating and they could rule otherwise but they haven’t — at least publicly — yet. So if this is for an intranet — a page on a Local Area Network — Windows might be good, but otherwise start with Linux. Apache and Php shouldn’t need explanation. Look them up. MySQL used to be Open Source and in theory still is, but is currently owned by Oracle which seems to be changing the licensing, so I would definitely look up ownership issues.
To get back to basics, and sorry, I can’t give you a specific cost estimate, you need a server. That itself can set you back some dozens of thousands of dollars. As I said you would need Linux, and most likely you would need someone with a consulting contract. The oldest company for this sort of thing still around is RHEL which distributes their RHEL with a consulting contract which can cost several thousand dollars. This is probably the best OS for this sort of thing, and there is a free alternative:
http://www.centos.org
Yes there is also Fedora but Fedora is the testing version of RHEL — it will crash occasionally and you should know that before you use it and tell them when it does so they can fix it and make it stable enough to become the new RHEL. Centos is RHEL recompiled to remove the proprietary trademarks and copyrighted materials which are not covered by the GPL and other Open Source licenses — ID software released the engine to games like Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake as Open Source but that doesn’t mean the games themselves are — levels, artwork and characters are trademarks and copyrighted materials. RHEL and ID have released this code under the licenses for the code they distribute. Red Hat talks about some "pirated" software — but what they mean is RHEL software which was obtained without the consulting contracts. Centos is legal and legitimate and as part of most consulting contracts Red Hat will support it. It is not pirated software and is a good choice when you want a version of the OS they don’t support directly any more. Or you can go elsewhere for a consulting contract. Obviously being or hiring a RHCE is a good idea (Red Hat Certified Engineer). And should give you an idea of the budget you are talking about.
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