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Thursday 20 November 2008, 6:45 PM
Linux and Apple run better sites than Microsoft
A survey - dontcha love surveys? - shows that Most Linux distros are running better websites than Microsoft.
Over one month, Microsoft's home page was down for one hour and 19 minutes, according to website monitoring company Pingdom. The survey also looked at 16 Linux distros, as well as Apple - and found that almost all of them did better, with most doing substantially better.
Mandriva, Mint and Arch had more downtime - Arch had a weekend outage - but Fedora, Knoppix, Mopis and Red Hat all had no downtime at all, and CentOS and Ubuntu also came in under Apple's impressive two minutes of downtime in the month.
The story on download times is similar. The HTML on Microsoft's page took just over a second to download, with only three Linux distros (Arch, Gentoo and PCLinuxOS) taking longer, while only four distros (Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu and Damn Small) were less than Apples 448ms.
The figures don't mean a great deal, of course. All the Linux versions have a lot less resources, and have to support a lot less traffic than Microsoft.
Still, the Apple site must have similar levels of traffic to Microsoft, and - on this month's showing - is handling it better.
And I like Pingdom. Last time I looked into one of its surveys, I discovered that Cubans prefer Linux to sex.
Over one month, Microsoft's home page was down for one hour and 19 minutes, according to website monitoring company Pingdom. The survey also looked at 16 Linux distros, as well as Apple - and found that almost all of them did better, with most doing substantially better.
Mandriva, Mint and Arch had more downtime - Arch had a weekend outage - but Fedora, Knoppix, Mopis and Red Hat all had no downtime at all, and CentOS and Ubuntu also came in under Apple's impressive two minutes of downtime in the month.
The story on download times is similar. The HTML on Microsoft's page took just over a second to download, with only three Linux distros (Arch, Gentoo and PCLinuxOS) taking longer, while only four distros (Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu and Damn Small) were less than Apples 448ms.
The figures don't mean a great deal, of course. All the Linux versions have a lot less resources, and have to support a lot less traffic than Microsoft.
Still, the Apple site must have similar levels of traffic to Microsoft, and - on this month's showing - is handling it better.
And I like Pingdom. Last time I looked into one of its surveys, I discovered that Cubans prefer Linux to sex.
PreviousComments on this post
Yes well I don't really think that could be true of Cubans in general, they must be talking about chocolate.
Another thing, I've found the whole mobile me thing a bit of a shambles, and windows live with it's sky drive etc very robust, and according to Paul Thurrot the author of supersite for windows, microsoft is about to throw in 25gbs of free storage. If that doesn't happen then I shall look back on this post with some embarasment!
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