Hi Scott
>Gotta disagree with ya here, Ian. My NT server runs my site plus email and
>other goodies, and regularly runs months with nary a thought in its
>direction. It's all in how you go about it :-)
Only months ?
Apart from upgrading software which only requires restarting the
software, this server has been up since 21st April this year when
it was restarted after swapping the SCSI drivers to a new server.
http://www.os2site.com/
Before that, I think it was in about Jan 2001 year that it was down
after the UPS fried itself, prior to that, it was up since Sept 1999.
And I cant remember how long comkal.net has been up,
think I had to turn it off when I upgraded the RAM in
June/July 2001.
Each server hosts from 6 to 12 websites, email, mailing
lists for varies domains etc, ftp servers, chat server,
and comkal.net also runs dialin software for others to login
in from home to access the internet. Each also uses PHP,
Perl, and REXX.
My biggest problem seems to be the routers of other
peoples networks which cause the odd outage. Like here
in Australia, Testra broadband users in NSW couldnt
access there hosted email on my servers for about 3
hours this afternoon .....
With AIX and OS/2, I'm more than happy to lock the
basement and house up, and go to Kalgoorlie for a
few months, knowing not only the servers will remain
running but that they are also secure.
How many security patches have you had to apply ;-)
In all seriousness though, I prefer NT over 2000 or XP
but it does take some trimming and setting up to
run properly, you also want to ensure you have some
really good RAM. When NT is loaded up though, its
rare to see an installation run for more than a couple
of months.
Cheers
Ian B Manners
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