Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes?

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @10:32AM from the what-about-change-burns dept.

AngryDad writes "Today I received a baffling email from my hosting provider that said, 'We have a company-wide patching freeze and we will not be releasing patches to our customers who utilize the patching portal for the months of November and December.' This means that myself and all other customers of theirs who run Windows servers will have to live with several critical holes for at least two months. Is this common practice with mid-tier hosting providers? If so, may I ask Eastern-EU folks to please refrain from hacking my servers during the holiday season?"

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Re:windows? what were you thinking? by gavron · 2012-11-21 12:29 · Score: 0, Flamebait

No. Everyone else who switched to linux is doing fine. It didn't work for you and somehow this translates to the whole industry, or that everyone else is crazy and foam at the mouth.
The world runs on Linux servers. I'm sorry your experience didn't bear that out. It's ok. Not everyone is cut out to be a server admin. Only idiots use Windows.
I guess you know your place now.
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