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Well now, wasn’t that fun?

We’re still awaiting word from the web host regarding just what the heck happened today.

Now, to catch up (fingers crossed for good luck)…

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26 Comments

  1. THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR RUNNING LINUX

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http://macdailynews.com/

    Yea I know, you don’t own your own servers and you can’t find one that uses Mac OS X because it’s too slow to be used as server compared to the more tailored, customizable Linux.

    But at least you could find one that runs BSD, they have uptimes measured in years!!!

    Apache + BSD Unix type (FreeBSD, Mac OS X Darwin, BSD) = best uptimes in the world.

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

    Make a choice, make a stand, beleive in what you say.

    MDN Word: “Got” Like I got MDN.

  2. MacDailyNews has run on Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD in the past, as they’ve noted here: http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/7519/

    FYI, currently:

    MacCentral’s host runs Linux:
    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=maccentral.com
    MacNN’s host runs FreeBSD:
    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=macnn.com
    MacSurfer’s host runs FreeBSD:
    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=macsurfer.com
    MacObserver’s host runs FreeBSD:
    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=macobserver.com
    AppleInsider’s host runs FreeBSD:
    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=appleinsider.com
    Apple runs Mac OS X:
    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=apple.com

    The server OS is a function of the web host and the web sites’ budgets, service needs, etc. I used to run a small Mac site – much smaller than MDN/iPodDN. Sure we wanted to run on Mac OS X, but if your preferred host uses Linux or FreeBSD, that’s what you use. We wouldn’t choose a host that ran Windows servers. For many reasons, but mainly because we wanted the site to be online.

  3. Ummm yeah, dude, any server that has an uptime of years without rebooting is just asking to be hacked, that means they likely have not updated the kernel in years as well…

    ooohhh yeah, bring that on…

    Of course being the server was responding with an offline message I would bet it was not server related… How would it be serving an offline message?

    MW = “school”, like go back to school and learn abit about running servers…

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