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I went back to April of this year, just to check, but I've looked at the list every month for the past few years. This is the first time I can ever remember where not one of the top ten most reliable Hosting Companies was using some flavour of Windows server.
The Netcraft survey is based on percentage of failed requests over the course of a month. In September, 8 of the top 10 hosts were running Linux, and 2 were listed as "unkown" - meaning they were using some method of obfuscating the underlying OS. This is a technique far more likely to be seen on Linux and FreeBSD (IMHO) than in Windows environments.
Linux usually tops and dominates the list, but there has always been some representation for Windows.
Netcraft also surveys who's running what, and they come back with 62% *nix/Apache, and 31% MS.
If both OS's were as stable as each other, you would expect to see 6 nix, 3 MS, and one "other" in the top ten reliable hosters list.
I am not quite sure how what is basically a hardware issue got turned into an OS one...
It's NOT a hardware issue. It's a reliability issue. Reliability (or lack thereof) stems from hardware, software, and management.
While this doesn't prove or disprove the reliability of the OS, it is interesting to see what OS the management of the most reliabile sites has chosen.
