From: "Geo." 

"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
news:pan.2003.05.18.11.52.04.716789{at}austin.rr.com...

> It's good that NT can idle for 60 days without a crash.  But what if you
> try and use it for something, especially something that uses networking?

Oh it's not idle. Usually when I setup a test machine with a new release
I'll move my nthelp site to it first, if it handles that (30 days uptime,
6000 page views per day) then I'll see if Jerry want's to try his
jsifaq.com site on it (30,000 page views per day). If it can handle those 2
sites with 60 days straight uptime then I'm comfortable enough to go to a
production box with it. W2k did not reach that point until SP2 which I
think was 5/01 so it was in testing for over 2 years  (3/99 thur 7/01)
before I put it on production boxes.

Note, I keep copies of these two sites on the old machine while testing,
just in case.. 

If you look at www.nthelp.com at the W2K section on the front page, you'll
see the link dated 3/24/99 announcing that the site was up and running on
NT5 (that's when I moved that site to W2k, MS had me in the beta program
then). I haven't setup the W2K3 box yet but when I do I'll put up another
saying it's moved to 03 web edition. That should happen within the next
couple weeks once I finish figuring out a basic configuration. However this
release may or may not make it to production boxes, not because of the
software but because of activation, I'm not about to run a business on
software that contains a deactivation worm target.

Imagine if code red had changed something in the machines that required
them to be reactivated again.. that would have been really really messy.

Geo.

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