Linked by Rahul on Thu 20th Nov 2008 03:22 UTC
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y Royal Pingdom blog has posted with a comparison of home page load times and uptimes and concludes that various Linux distributions and Apple, both beat Microsoft's record.
  • 13/16 Linux distributions (and Apple) had less downtime than Microsoft's homepage.
  • 5/16 Linux distributions had less downtime than Apple's homepage.
  • Four homepages had NO downtime: Red Hat, Mepis, Knoppix and Fedora.
  • Five homepages had more than an hour of downtime: Gentoo, Mandriva, Mint, Arch and Microsoft.
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Yeah...
by google_ninja on Thu 20th Nov 2008 05:49 UTC
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and how many of those have 3 properties on the alexa top 20? you compare microsoft.com to yahoo or google, not arch. It's not hard to maintain uptime when you only have a few thousand visits a month.