Re: The Joys of Microsoft Webserving

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a matter of fact NO ONE is running XP for servers.

Mainly because XP is only a desktop OS.  They do not have an XP version of
their server.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:09 PM
Subject: The Joys of Microsoft Webserving


> 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