Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the and-they-all-run-the-beast dept.
X86BSD writes "Interesting survey at Netcraft showing the most reliable hosting providers for June. Interesting that not just the top 5 are FreeBSD but that the top 10 come from all variants in the industry."
Before the *BSD is Dying trolls start...
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Informative
According to Netcraft,
Intriguingly, all of the Top 5 placed sites run the FreeBSD operating system
I'm curious over the choice of the word "Intriguingly." My experience with FreeBSD has shown it to be nothing but rock-solid as a server OS. I actually prefer it over Linux these days (I was a RH-zealot for a couple of years until I "saw the light," as it were).
What would be intriguing were if Windows had nabbed the top 5 spots...
Re:Before the *BSD is Dying trolls start...
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Alan+Cox
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· Score: 4, Informative
I don't see anything intriguing there. The Linux clock wraps at 497 days. It's also not "intriguing" as such because FreeBSD is an extremely stable OS.
I am suprised AIX didn't show up in the top five I must admit
Re:Before the *BSD is Dying trolls start...
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eht
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· Score: 4, Informative
Blame everything on the Linux clock wrapping at 497 days, well you might want to have that fixed eh?
I'd like it fixed so it can stopped being used as an excuse.
Or you could read the article and find it has nothing to do with anyone's uptime clock, it's by failed req% in the month of June, but that would be too hard.
I'm in the same situation. Use Open for Firewall computeres, Free for everything else. Stable and easy to maintain. The easy to maintain part is about the most important to me.
No particular order
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nuggz
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· Score: 3, Informative
And if you look at the data you see. The top 40+ have no failed requests, and it is just minor differences in response times, and it isn't overly clear if they are even sorted by that.
You say that, but I believe that netcraft detects the OS based on responses to queries sent to the webserver.
Nmap, on the other hand, detects the OS based on the random-number sequence generation of TCP packets.
How does this affect things? Well, if you have a load balancer or firewall that forwards the HTTP connection to another webserver somewhere, then nmap will return the OS of the firewall or load balancer, whereas netcraft will return the OS of the final webserver.
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What would be intriguing were if Windows had nabbed the top 5 spots...
I'm in the same situation. Use Open for Firewall computeres, Free for everything else. Stable and easy to maintain. The easy to maintain part is about the most important to me.
And if you look at the data you see.
The top 40+ have no failed requests, and it is just minor differences in response times, and it isn't overly clear if they are even sorted by that.
You say that, but I believe that netcraft detects the OS based on responses to queries sent to the webserver.
Nmap, on the other hand, detects the OS based on the random-number sequence generation of TCP packets.
How does this affect things? Well, if you have a load balancer or firewall that forwards the HTTP connection to another webserver somewhere, then nmap will return the OS of the firewall or load balancer, whereas netcraft will return the OS of the final webserver.