Server and database technology for large educational institute

[tango4all]

Hi everyone,

I'm just doing a research and would love to have some input,

The question is if I want to build a web portal (Educational Institute), which is quite large. It will be dynamically updated and users can come into the site and download information from a database.

What would be the appropriate server technology, database, application server and scripting language??

Most appreciated

[lord loh]

server technology,
database,
application server
scripting language??

You have a huge choice...

Are you hosting it on your mechine or a databank?

servers :apache,Xitami,IIS (http://httpd.apache.org/ , http://www.xitami.net )

database :mySQL,postgreSQL,MSSQL,Oracle( http://www.mysql.com/ )

application server : I only know of coldfusion.

Scripting Language: vbscript, jscript, php, perl, c (http://www.activestate.com/, http://www.php.net/)

Hope this helps...