In my post Ch-ch-changes! I spoke about getting WordPress to run on IIS 7, Vista, etc. It was a huge pain. 2 days ago I had a genius idea that I was surprised I hadn’t thought of before. What prompted it was an article on Engadget about a tiny linux computer that would fit in a wall wart – TINY! It has a relatively powerful ARM processor (usually used in cell phones) with 512 MB RAM and 512 MB onboard flash memory. The first thing I thought about that was: LAMP server! I have to wait until the price drops to $50 to see if it will work.
This helped me realize that instead of messing with IIS and Vista, why not make a virtual machine with 512MB RAM and just a little processing power to see how it works? And so I downloaded VMWare server, Debian Lenny (debian compiles their distros for arm processors), and for the past 2 days I’ve been re-learning linux. Finally, it works and it works beautifully. Surprisingly MUCH faster than IIS 7. Although WordPress worked great on IIS 7, WordPress just wasn’t designed for it.
Wall Wart… gross.
You’ve done so many good things to your server! You never cease to impress me with it.