Uptimes by OS, for the Hot 100.
Bobby D. Bryant
(thanks!), so I've pulled the list and done a current analysis.
Hot 100, as of 17-Jan-2001
Courtesy of http://www.100hot.com/directory/100hot/index.html
Uptimes as of 21-Jan-2001
Courtesy of www.netcraft.com
Use "latest" 90-day moving average.
If average is over < 90 days, did not log that fact here.
Add "www." if the site gives a list.
yahoo.com .FreeBSD, no info
microsoft.com .W2K, 15.63
lycos.com .Tru64, no info
aol.com .Solaris, 234.56
altavista.com .Tru64, no info
egroups.com .FreeBSD, no info
excite.com .Solaris, no info
go.com .Solaris, 31.50
google.com .Linux, 44.53
cnet.com .Solaris, 40.25
cnn.com .Solaris, 32.21
fortunecity.com .Solaris, 9.39
looksmart.com .Solaris, 31.96
chek.com .Linux, no info
ugo.com .NT4/98, no info
amazon.com .Linux, 42.33
snowball.com .Solaris, 52.80
usa.net .W2K, 7.96
quote.com .unknown (but IIs5), no info
ebay.com .Solaris, 42.51
nai.com .NT4/98, no info
acm.org .AIX, no info
macromedia.com .Solaris, no info
rational.com .Solaris, 79.28
zdnet.com .Solaris, 81.01
spedia.net .Linux, 63.63
homestead.com .NT4/98, no info
sportsline.com .Solaris, 16.69
burstnet.com .Linux, 89.39
adbutler.com .Linux, 5.84
uspto.gov .<not in database>
reuters.com .Solaris, 7.71
weather.com .Solaris, 85.45
lettera.net .NT4/98, no info
about.com .FreeBSD, no info
pathfinder.com .Solaris, 334.76
mail.com .Solaris, no info
mtnsms.com .W2K, 9.88
nodak.edu .<not in database>
click2net.com .FreeBSD, no info
real.com .Linux, no info
theglobe.com .NT4/98, no info
wwf.com .Linux, no info
nbci.com .Solaris, 23.03
nettaxi.com .Solaris, no info
myalert.com .<not in database>
msnbc.com .W2K, 20.54
sun.com .Solaris, 55.54
sony.com .Solaris, 42.49
mtv.com .Solaris, 79.84
aveo-attune.com .<not in database>
monster.com .IIS on unknown, no info
mamma.com .Linux, 18.43
eudoramail.com .Solaris, 7.42
filepool.com .<not in database>
everyone.net .Linux, 26.74
passport.com .W2K, 36.57
cjb.net .FreeBSD, no info
mp3.com .Linux, 48.36
webjump.com .NT4/98, no info
jackpot.com .W2K, 3.84
oracle.com .Solaris, 17.32
freedrive.com .NT4/98, no info
efront.com .FreeBSD, no info
metropoli2000.net .Linux[*], no info
mryy.com .unknown, no info
delphi.com .unknown, no info
gsmbox.com .Linux, no info
netflip.com .Solaris, no info
web1000.com .NT4/98, no info
tucows.com .Linux, 35.81
targetnet.com .FreeBSD, no info
windowsmedia.com .W2K, 45.05
speedyclick.com .Linux, 21.73
nytimes.com .Solaris, 54.76
nasa.gov .<not in database>
internet.com .Solaris, 43.59
epilot.com .W2K, 12.04
webshots.com .Linux, 56.49
bizland.com .Linux, 6.59
talkcity.com .Solaris, 39.94
tenmax.com .NT4/98, no info
apple.com .Solaris, 75.14
brinkster.com .unknown (but IIs5), no info
dell.com .W2K, 11.82
terra.com .Solaris, 26.36
friendfinder.com .Linux, 4.94
hp.com .HP-UX, no info
developer.com .Solaris, 82.65
tminterzines.com .BSD/OS, 38.28
ea.com .Solaris, 28.36
clickagents.com .Solaris, 6.26
winamp.com .Solaris, 48.26
50megs.com .Linux, 49.35
homepage.com .W2K, 42.97
usatoday.com .Solaris, 94.38
unicast.com .<not in database>
infospace.com .W2K, 11.77
zzn.com .unknown (but IIs3), no info
foxnews.com .Tru64, no info
[*] "Microsoft-IIS/6.0PR2 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4 on Linux"
There may be even more errors in the following counts and averages than
there are in the transcriptions above. I did not check my arithmetic,
because everyone but Chad already knows how it's going to turn out.
He's welcome to check it if he thinks he can wrangle any advantage out
of it. (He'll need it.)
Solaris - 35 sites (30 with stats), avg 60.18, max 334.76, min 6.26
Linux - 19 sites (14 with stats), avg 36.73, max 89.39, min 4.94
W2K - 11 sites, avg 19.82, max 45.05, min 3.84
Using Linux as the benchmark (simply because it's the median), you get:
Solaris - 1.65
Linux - 1.00
W2K - 0.54 (State-of-the-art Unix killer, tee hee.)
Others:
NT4 or W98 - 9 sites, no info.
BSD - 8 sites (of which 7 are FreeBSD), mostly no stats.
Tru64 - 3 sites, no stats.
HP-UX - 1 site, no stats.
AIX - 1 site, no stats
6 unknown, 7 not in database.
Total 100
Corrections welcome.
Ready to spin, Chad. Notice that Linux and MS have approximately the
same share of these "fluffy the cat" sites, though almost half the
MS-based sites haven't seen fit to upgrade to W2K.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
sfcybear
Very cool! Thanks for the work!
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> In another thread Ayende Rahien reminded me where to find the Hot 100
> (thanks!), so I've pulled the list and done a current analysis.
> ...
> Solaris - 35 sites (30 with stats), avg 60.18, max 334.76, min 6.26
> Linux - 19 sites (14 with stats), avg 36.73, max 89.39, min 4.94
> W2K - 11 sites, avg 19.82, max 45.05, min 3.84
Hey, Chad -- has this message come across your server yet? You get most
of our posts quite promptly. Wonder why this one is different? You know
we're all eagerly awaiting your reply.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
Kevin Ford
what's the url again?
Bobby D. Bryant
> what's the url again?
If you're asking about the Hot 100, it's
http://www.100hot.com/directory/100hot/index.html
Bobby
Aaron R. Kulkis
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> Bobby
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Bobby D. Bryant
> > Solaris - 35 sites (30 with stats), avg 60.18, max 334.76, min 6.26
> > Linux - 19 sites (14 with stats), avg 36.73, max 89.39, min 4.94
> > W2K - 11 sites, avg 19.82, max 45.05, min 3.84
Hello, Chad! Four days and counting. Where's that reply?
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
Bobby D. Bryant
Hello, Chad! Five days and counting. When are you going to come out and
champion the Unix killer?
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
Bobby D. Bryant
> > > > Solaris - 35 sites (30 with stats), avg 60.18, max 334.76, min 6.26
> > > > Linux - 19 sites (14 with stats), avg 36.73, max 89.39, min 4.94
> > > > W2K - 11 sites, avg 19.82, max 45.05, min 3.84
> >
> > Hello, Chad! Four days and counting. Where's that reply?
>
> Hello, Chad! Five days and counting. When are you going to come out and
> champion the Unix killer?
Hey, Chad! Six days and counting. Are you sure you haven't seen this yet?
Is your news server's DNS down or something?
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
Bobby D. Bryant
Hey, Chad! It's been a whole week. What's the problem? You should at least
be able to come up with a lame claim that uptime isn't important to the Hot
100, or that kernel hackers are bribing those sites to reboot their W2K
machines just to make MS look bad.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
Wilfred van Rooyen
a littlebit:
Uptime Solaris:
mean: 60.18 days
standard deviation: 67.51
95% confidence interval: 51.76 - 68.60 days
Uptime Linux
mean: 36.73 days
standard deviation: 24.51
95% confidence interval: 32.19 - 41.26 days
Uptime M$
mean: 19.82
standard deviation: 14.68
95% confidence interval: 16.57 - 23.07
So far, this is not good for M$..... Remember that when the confindence
intervals intersect/overlap the difference between the two observed
stochastics is statistically insignificant.
However, the statistics could be skewed because of very high or low values
of one of the observed stochastics (outlier); if the outlier bigger than 2
sigma are ruled out, we get the following statistics:
Uptime Solaris:
mean: 44.17 days
standard deviation: 26.64
95% confidence interval: 40.71 - 49.59 days
Uptime Linux
mean: 32.67 days
standard deviation: 20.04
95% confidence interval: 28.81 - 36.54 days
Uptime M$
mean: 19.82
standard deviation: 14.68
95% confidence interval: 16.57 - 23.07
There are no outliers in de M$ case. Not only are they crappy, thay are
ALL crappy at a statistical level. Note that the statistics for Solaris
are heavily skewed because of the two outliers at 254 and 334 days. And
that the Solaris is significantly better than Linux.
Please Njoy
Wilfred.
sfcybear
For the price of Solaris and the hardware it should be. That is the
problem with W2K and NT, It costs a lot and is not as stable as a
give-away OS! The combination of Linux and Solaris is a good match. A
small Linux server may be all a small sales office needs for Email and
file sharing while the solaris boxes do some of the more mission
critical stuff. With little effort the same skill sets can run both!
>
> Please Njoy
>
> Wilfred.
>
> "Bobby D. Bryant" wrote:
>
Bloody Viking
sfcybear (sfcy...@my-deja.com) wrote:
: For the price of Solaris and the hardware it should be. That is the
: problem with W2K and NT, It costs a lot and is not as stable as a
: give-away OS! The combination of Linux and Solaris is a good match. A
That's the irony. A freeware OS outperforming the hugely costly Microsoft
server OSes. Expecting a commercial UNIX to outperform a freeware OS makes
sense. But a freeware OS outperforming a pay OS is a case of "what's wrong
with this picture".
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