Microsoft does it again

[bscott at ntisys.com]

  http://makeashorterlink.com/?P40F62233 (to microsoft.com)

  In reference to their deployment of the Windows 2003 Server on
Microsoft.com while still in testing:

> They rarely reboot Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0 -- perhaps a tenth as
> often as Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0, they estimate. "We're seeing
> crazy uptime numbers now, like three months, six months. I fully expect
> we'll see a year of uptime when Windows Server 2003 is finished," Stucky
> says.

  They run the main MS website on a group of six clusters of ten
quad-processor systems each.  Sixty computers.  240 processors.  And they
consider "three months" to be "crazy uptime"!

  This also implies they reboot their Windows 2000 servers every 9 to 12
*days*!

  *shakes head in disbelief*

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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