Windows vs Linux deployment in Higher Ed
Hi,
I'm a one-person web shop at a small University located in the Southeast US. Our site is built on a RHEL 5.3 using Drupal 6.22 -- we host our own server, and it's been running great for the last 3 years.
We're a small school, and our IT department is outsourced. The contract we have with this company -- wait for it -- offers NO support for our web site! Therefore I'm Web Developer/ Webmaster / System Admin / Security Expert / DBA / etc. for the web. I am not trained in security or system admin and have basically been relying on a RedHat support subscription. However they don't cover the "AMP" part of LAMP, nor security for Drupal, nor anything Drupal, etc.
Well, my site got hacked recently, and one web page was vandalized. The school is now freaking out, and the IT dept is under the gun to provide security and maintenance for the web site. However, they only support Windows servers. I really don't want to go to a Windows server environment, but it may be happening unless I can provide reasons not to.
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