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Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes?

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. windows? what were you thinking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Using windows to provide an internet facing service was the first mistake.

    1. Re:windows? what were you thinking? by gavron · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What he said.

      I'm sorry the Windows-mods modded it down. It's instructional and it's informational. NOBODY should EVER use windows servers as Internet-facing devices.

      Sorry, mods. Reality suggests the 0 is your score for having a clue.

      E

    2. Re:windows? what were you thinking? by dbIII · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Since in this case you can patch without reboots, the answer is just switching to linux (or anything else that can patch without reboots) CAN solve the problem.
      Of course it doesn't solve every server problem, but nobody above said it would, just you dishonestly shifting the goalposts and pretending it's no good unless it fixes problems that were not even being discussed here. That's a bit of a slimy little tactic IMHO so you must feel very strongly if you are prepared to lower yourself to that level, but let's keep all the mindless emotive fanboy bullshit out of it since it just makes you look like more of an idiot than you actually are.