From: "Geo." 

They aren't even real uptimes, what netcraft does is check the site
occasionally and if it's there the uptime continues. A simple outage on the
internet between netcraft and the server is enough to cause uptimes to
start over.

Geo.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3f3fa040{at}w3.nls.net...
> After noting that *all* the top 50 uptimes in web servers are BSD or
FreeBSD,
> I'm moved to ask some really mindless questions.
>
> o 1300-1500da uptimes are a stunt, right?  Meaningless in any production
> application?  250 days is fine, right?
>
> o There's a bunch of BSD users out there with no load on their servers who
got
> tired of eating goldfish, stuffing themselves in Volkswagens and
web-mobbing,
> right?  They're doing uptime stunts?
>
> o These uptimes are kernel uptimes, right?  Nowhere is there a metric for
> Apache uptime, or BIND uptime?  Heck, in 1999 you'd have needed a
> high-resolution timer for BIND.
>
> (I'm being playful, but I really don't know.)
>
> --
>
> -frh
>

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