Linked by Rahul on Thu 20th Nov 2008 03:22 UTC
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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Member since:2005-08-18
On the other hand, it's not hard to maintain uptime when you have microsoft's resources to pour into failover and redundant systems.
Either way, the pingdom statistics are pretty meaningless. All it really tells us is that all of these sites (except Arch) are stable enough for visitors to not notice any downtime and that's what really matters. As for Arch, they could have switched providers or servers or whatever in this (too short) time frame and the result is probably not representative for the long-term availability.
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2006-02-05
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.