Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 03:26:39 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net> To: DrTebi <drtebi@yahoo.com> Cc: Oscar Castaneda <oscarcvt@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: hotmail question Message-ID: <20010919031428.L29229-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <007f01c14089$0739a4c0$c8e1b3d8@liquidground.com>
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Hi, On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, DrTebi wrote: > Netcraft has a website where you can try to find out any webservers OS (and > theirs uptime, webserver software etc.). It works in most cases. Here is the > link: > http://uptime.netcraft.com/ > > Looking up msn.com, passport.com and hotmail.com all returns Windows2000. > > However, I have heard a rumor that after Microsoft bought hotmail, which was > running on some *nix system before, they switched to Windows2000 and > experienced a lot of problems, which eventually made them switch back to > Unix with Qmail. But that's just a rumor and might not be true... > > >From my research and experience, I am convinced that a well configured *nix > system will be much more robust, faster and most of all more secure. But > that's just an opinion. > > DrTebi I have no clue wether hotmail runs any derivative of a Unix install any more but remember way back in 1998 that they were Unix systems, this was however ages before the Microsoft machine ran over it (own opinion). Just an interesting point that could be the reason for the feedback on the win2k reply is that the web front end machines that may just serve the http. Anyone with ideas on what OS feedback is given from any one of the MX's? That would give a better idea of just what they are running (if they give any feedback at all). PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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