How can MS say they have a 99.9% uptime guarentee...

[Keego]

Yet have critical updates that force you to reboot? christ every 2 weeks there's another security patch.

 

[microAmp]

<< Yet have critical updates that force you to reboot? christ every 2 weeks there's another security patch.

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That uptime reminded me of an article I read once about MS and what OS they use for thier servers, 4 of 10 or was it 6 of 10, think first, use Linux OS on their servers.......

 

[Keego]

I think they switched them all over. but I have no clue. It's not like they'll brag about what OS they're running

 

[LAUST]

Delete

 

[Keego]

ahh... that makes a lot of sense, my server has yet to crash on me

 

[Nemesis77]

They achieve that uptime by using server-clusters. Basically, they have alot of servers, and you update them one by one. So, even if you have to reboot a server, you still have servers up. So the uptime-figure is for the whole server-cluster, not individual servers.

Well, yes there is the "scheduled downtime". But in my book, downtime is downtime, no matter if it's scheduled or not.

 

[Rogue]

Even then, unless my math is off, a 99.9% uptime permits you to have 525.6 minutes of downtime per year. If done properly, security updates should not take that much time out of your systems uptime including reboots. I don't think a single one of my non-clustered servers see that much down time per year for regular OS maintenance.

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

nm just venting my displeasure about ms and their products