Windows Live Spaces racks up most downtime
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| Microsoft was found floundering at the bottom of the list in a study of which
| social networking websites experienced the most downtime in the space of a
| month.
|
| Internet monitoring firm Pingdom tested the availability of the 12 largest
| social networking sites on the internet including Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo!
| 360, LiveJournal, Bebo and Windows Live Spaces (formerly MSN Spaces) from 19
| October to 19 November.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/22/social_networking_downtime/
Wait until Microsoft bribes some 'analyst' to play the science of statistics
and produce some lies.
Microsoft's own internal memos (see below) reveal that Microsoft does this as a
matter of strategy:
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
Related:
Microsoft adCenter Faces Four Days of Outage?
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| I’m not an active user of Microsoft’s adCenter, so I need your help with
| validating reports that the service has been offline for many users for the
| last four days.
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http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/08/microsoft-adcenter-faces-four-days-of-outage.html
Patch Tuesday update triggered Skype outage
,----[ Quote ]
| Skype has blamed last week's prolonged outage on the effects of Microsoft's
| Patch Tuesday.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/skype_outage_post-mortem/
Linux versus Windows: OS impact on uptime and speed
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| Linux was ahead of Windows every week by more than 0.5%. For
| your understanding 0.5% downtime means 50 minutes per week, or
| 216 minutes or 3 hours 36 minutes per month.
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http://blog.mon.itor.us/?p=286
Shining a LAMP on Web 2.0
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| Uptime monitoring firm Pingdom has done a small survey of some of the
| most popular Web 2.0 sites on the Internet to see what is running under
| the hood that keeps the web sites going.
|
| The results are a fairly conclusive vote of confidence in the LAMP
| stack: six out of the seven businesses queried are running Linux and
| MySQL, five are using Apache, and five are using PHP.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/shining_a_lamp.html
Microsoft.com Goes Down
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| Microsoft.com was showing a plain "MSCOM RENDERING PLACEHOLDER" for
| a couple of minutes just a few minutes ago. With the Symantec hack
| attack going on, is this an orchestrated attack?
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http://www.thecollegevoice.com/news/f6a54d18a92007823f9d55cc44b56abb
British businesses lose £1bn to email downtime
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| An average small to medium-sized company in the UK suffers four
| e-failures (where email per incident is down for more than half a
| working day) per year.
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http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2169146/email-downtime-proves-costly
NHS Direct all better
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| NHS Direct is back online this afternoon after going on the sick
| with a server error earlier today.
|
| According to Netcraft, the Windows 2000 server at the bargain
| basement hypochondriac magnet modern, accessible public healthcare
| resource was rebooted today. See here.
|
| Whatever malady did for the box, it was "unexpected", as the message
| on the site explained for most of today.
|
| NHS Direct was unavailable for comment at time of writing.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/10/nhsdirect_back/
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/10/07/rackspace_most_reliable_hoster_in_september.html
http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=toplist&content=toplist&orderby=uptime%20DESC&site=1
http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=toplist&content=toplist&orderby=uptime%20DESC&site=2
http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=toplist&content=toplist&orderby=uptime%20DESC&site=3
Linux provides solid uptime for automated hunting and fishing licenses
,----[ Quote ]
| Even with the challenges, Edwards is completely happy with Linux. "There's no
| question. It's absolutely critical for us to make money. If we're down,
| there's penalties we get assessed by the state governments. We absolutely
| have to be up all the time. For the most part, we make that. We haven't had
| any issues with open source."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121606
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