Stronghold CMS - Open Source Enterprise Content Mangagement for the Government and Corporate Sector

Stronghold CMS Platform Selection

Hardware

Stronghold CMS' dependencies are all open source and can be compiled on just about anything so you can use virtually any hardware that tickles your fancy. If run on linux, Stronghold CMS can run a high volume site on very scant hardware requirements.

Operating System

The Stronghold CMS Project highly recommends Linux solutions over Windows solutions where an experienced Linux Administrator is present in the organisation.

	Linux	Windows
Business Case	Highly scalable (more bang for buck) Easier to manage if you have an experienced Linux Administrator High security as a web platform Lower potential for failure from OS auto-update patches	Easier to manage by an experienced Windows Administrator Potentially easier troubleshooting path
Requirements	Apache SSL support APXS mod_rewrite PHP 5 ldap support support for your database Samba mod_auth_ntlm_winbind	IIS PHP 5 ldap support support for your database IIRF http://www.codeplex.com/IIRF

Database Platforms

Stronghold CMS comes with full support for:

PostgreSQL
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle
MySQL

Stronghold CMS can be run successfully on other database platforms compliments of the database-independant design, it's just not directly supported.

Databases are ordered by prefered platform.

	Windows	Linux	Performance	Licence	Standards Compliant
PostgreSQL			High	Free
PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL is Stronghold CMS's recommended database platform. It has demonstrated rock-solid, high perfomance capability in production environments.
Microsoft SQL Server			Moderate	Moderate
Microsoft SQL Server	Microsoft SQL Server is a reliable RDBMS and is well supported in corporate organisations, but it does not scale as well for high volume sites. As a platform, it has the highest amount of service disruptions from "updates requiring reboots".
Oracle			High	Expensive
Oracle	Oracle's great, it's just expensive! The same reliable high-performance results can be acheived with PostgreSQL, so Oracle is only recommended if you already have an Oracle investment.
MySQL			High	Free
MySQL	MySQL has the highest performance of our supported platforms and could be a worthwhile investment for high-volume read-intensive sites. It does provide some development hurdles for our programmers because it doesn't fully implement the SQL ANSI standard, but that's more our problem than your problem :)