I read in the news this morning that the Sargent-of-Arms of the Senate was recommending that the Senators "stay away" from the DrudgeReport site because, it claimed, DrudgeReport (and Whitepages.com) was the source of viruses infecting the Senate computers.
Curious, I checked to see what DrudgeReport was using for their servers... it was Linux! Apparently, after Sen Inhofe asked for proof of this claim, the Sargent-of-Arms backed down from its claim about the Drudge Report on late Tuesday afternoon when it sent out a follow-up email warning about viruses that made no mention of Drudge.
While I was looking at DrudgeReport's uptime (currently at 133 days and over 500 days in the past) I saw a link on the left side of the page for "Longest Uptimes". With even more curiosity I clicked it and had my socks knocked off. Eighteen of the top 20 Internet servers with, if Netcraft is to be believed, the longest uptimes were running Windows.
Two were running Linux. The longest was 1,712 days (4.6 years) for a Windows 2000 server. Now, I have experience running a Windows 2000 server in our LAN at work and there is NO WAY a Windows 2000 server can reach 1712 days of uptime, even if it just sat there in idle, not connected to the Internet and serving no web pages.
I also so another link for the "Most reliable" servers and it showed that 6 out of 10 of the "most reliable" Internet servers were running Linux! Two were BSD. One was "unknown" (probably Linux). One was Windows Server 2008.
Longest Uptimes and "most reliable" are synonymous to me. A server cannot be unreliable and have a long uptime. I know that Netcraft creatively "interprets" all of its Internet findings to favor Microsoft, like counting individually ALL of GoDaddy's thousands of PARKED Windows servers one by one, but counting Google's 5,000 IN SERVICE Linux servers as ONE, but I was amazed that they let this oversight through. Linux is more reliable but Windows has the longest uptimes?
Having worked with Windows servers extensively and considering that MANY of the Windows patches and security updates over the last FIVE years REQUIRE reboots, either those 4.6 year uptime Windows Internet servers are NOT doing their security updates, OR, their admins are resetting the last reboot date to the install date. But, they can't lie about reliability. If a site is down it is down and that fact cannot be glossed over. Linux is famous for its reliability. Windows is famous for its unreliability, insecurity and its need for being rebooted with almost every configuration change, patch or security update.
Netcraft has been caught with its pants down, and the Sargent-at-Arms of the Senate is slandering the most secure OS on the planet.
Curious, I checked to see what DrudgeReport was using for their servers... it was Linux! Apparently, after Sen Inhofe asked for proof of this claim, the Sargent-of-Arms backed down from its claim about the Drudge Report on late Tuesday afternoon when it sent out a follow-up email warning about viruses that made no mention of Drudge.
While I was looking at DrudgeReport's uptime (currently at 133 days and over 500 days in the past) I saw a link on the left side of the page for "Longest Uptimes". With even more curiosity I clicked it and had my socks knocked off. Eighteen of the top 20 Internet servers with, if Netcraft is to be believed, the longest uptimes were running Windows.
Two were running Linux. The longest was 1,712 days (4.6 years) for a Windows 2000 server. Now, I have experience running a Windows 2000 server in our LAN at work and there is NO WAY a Windows 2000 server can reach 1712 days of uptime, even if it just sat there in idle, not connected to the Internet and serving no web pages.I also so another link for the "Most reliable" servers and it showed that 6 out of 10 of the "most reliable" Internet servers were running Linux!
Two were BSD. One was "unknown" (probably Linux). One was Windows Server 2008. Longest Uptimes and "most reliable" are synonymous to me. A server cannot be unreliable and have a long uptime. I know that Netcraft creatively "interprets" all of its Internet findings to favor Microsoft, like counting individually ALL of GoDaddy's thousands of PARKED Windows servers one by one, but counting Google's 5,000 IN SERVICE Linux servers as ONE, but I was amazed that they let this oversight through. Linux is more reliable but Windows has the longest uptimes?
Having worked with Windows servers extensively and considering that MANY of the Windows patches and security updates over the last FIVE years REQUIRE reboots, either those 4.6 year uptime Windows Internet servers are NOT doing their security updates, OR, their admins are resetting the last reboot date to the install date. But, they can't lie about reliability. If a site is down it is down and that fact cannot be glossed over. Linux is famous for its reliability. Windows is famous for its unreliability, insecurity and its need for being rebooted with almost every configuration change, patch or security update.
Netcraft has been caught with its pants down, and the Sargent-at-Arms of the Senate is slandering the most secure OS on the planet.
this into an attack on linux is disingenuous at best.
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