Netcraft:uptime of servers

[hard candy]

Netcraft (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.justlinux.com)
has some surprising results. way to go to Justlinux
Jupiter/internet.com/Justlinux=longest 267 days
Microsoft.com=lomgest-106 days
Redhat=longest-26 days
Suse=longest-496 days
IBM= cannot collect info on AIX
Debian=longest-375 days
Novell-cannot collect info on Netware.
Not sure if this proves anything, not sure if it is a reflection on administration, OS, hardware, or just pure luck. Something to do while you're waiting on the mailman. :)
(excuse me-I meant mailperson)

[Wolface]

Suse=longest-496 days

wow :cool:

[hard candy]

I was checking out Slackware, this host is running BSD-
http://nixed.ath.cx/
longest=1704 days.
But if you read the FAQ on Netcraft, on linux and some others, their report resets to zero after 497 days, so it's not really a long term indicator. And what I'm thinking Redhat probably got reset, maybe microsoft also.

[hard candy]

OS, Web Server and Hosting History for www.whitehouse.gov:
So George Bush uses opensource! And I thought he was a microsoft guy.
OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner
Linux Apache 30-Mar-2004 212.187.169.172 Akamai
Linux Apache 29-Mar-2004 213.244.181.108 Akamai
Linux Apache 27-Mar-2004 80.15.236.54 Akamai
Linux Apache 20-Mar-2004 195.113.150.5 CESNET, z.s.p.o.
Linux Apache 15-Mar-2004 194.109.217.178 Akamai
Linux Apache 14-Mar-2004 81.23.243.16 Akamai Technologies.,US
Linux Apache 13-Mar-2004 194.109.217.177 Akamai
Linux Apache 9-Mar-2004 212.23.59.23 Akamai
Linux Apache 22-Feb-2004 212.23.37.15 Akamai
Linux Apache 15-Feb-2004 212.23.33.14 Akamai

And the Democrats:
OS, Web Server and Hosting History for www.democrats.org
OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner
Linux Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 25-Mar-2004 208.254.24.194 Democratic National Committee
unknown Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 24-Mar-2004 208.254.24.194 Democratic National Committee
Linux Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 16-Jan-2004 208.254.24.201 Democratic National Committee
Linux Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 15-Jan-2004 208.254.24.201 Democratic National Committee
Linux unknown 14-Jan-2004 208.254.24.194 Democratic National Committee
Linux Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 14-Nov-2003 208.254.24.194 Democratic National Committee
Linux Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 12-Sep-2003 208.254.24.194 Democratic National Committee
Linux unknown 10-Sep-2003 208.254.24.201 Democratic National Committee
Linux Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 14-May-2003 208.254.24.194 Democratic National Committee
Linux Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 13-May-2003 208.254.24.194 Democratic National Committee

I wonder if Bill Gates knows about this?



:D

[Icarus]

Anyone else find it troubling that many of these have not been rebooted? Uptime is a great indicator of stability...but kernel updates/patches require a full reboot...

This only makes me worried about the security of these servers, considering earlier this year a Gentoo repository was compromised and a few weeks later there was anothor major Linux server that was compromised (I want to say Debian or SUSE...too lazy to check right now :))

Seeing Red Hat's uptime low like that, tells me that they maybe doing the updates...which to me is a good thing

[hard candy]

But in the FAQ, they point out that with a server "farm" they are just measuring the general uptime, an individual machine can be rebooted without losing the "uptime".

[Icarus]

A farm...now THAT is cool!!

Herd the chickens and milk the pigs! Yeeehhaaaa!!! :p

Seriously, the server farm makes that much more impressive and reliable. And considering netstat only measures general uptime (site availablitiy), it's good to know that these sites are available like that...I wonder what mine looks like...?

No uptime available...bah! I guess that's what I get for using a shared server provider :p