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Subject: The Joys of Microsoft Webserving
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:09:03 -0500
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I don't know if anyone has been noticing, but lately the MSN server is often
down or at least their applications are failing.  Many of their headlines
point to a secondary server, go.msn.com, which has regularly been returning
"Page Unavailable".

This is intermittent, and is often cleared up quickly, but it sure points to
a serious problem in either application control of server bandwidth.
go.msn.com is running IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000.

I find it kind of interesting that according to Netcraft not even Microsoft
is running servers on Windows XP.  Most of their servers run Windows 2000,
with a smattering of .NET, NT and Linux, as well as a few odd ones, such as
Irix and Cougar.  The non-2000 sites are primarily reserved addresses:
addresses that aren't really in service, but that somebody locked in anyway.

http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/Reports/current/developers/microsoft.html

Joe

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