[KLUG Members] (humor) Code Red and Microsoft Web Servers

[Bill]

On Wednesday 01 August 2001 19:27, you wrote:

> I was an original NT 3.1 beta tester and ran production NT servers
> from 1994-1999.
> I had 1 rule of thumb:
>
>    At least a weekly reboot, if not daily
>
> If the system ran applications, I rebooted daily.  My NT 3.5 file
> servers froze an average of every 45 days, NT 4.0 every 15 days.  My
> 3.5 application servers froze an average of every 10 days, my NT 4.0
> every 4 days.
>
> I no longer run NT (nor 2000) servers, period.
>
> -- TheBS

Bryan ... why not? Sounds like job security to me. By now the reboots should 
be down to every 30 minutes or so and, on a bigger installation, that can 
mean the thing is never actually up! :-)

Hmmm ... on second thought they must be up SOME times ... else how would 
viruses and worms spread?

Bill