PussyCash should switch from Windows Server 2003 to a Linux Base System.
 

Would be much more stable, scalable and faster.

Anyway, is PussyCash down?

What makes you think it has anything to do with win 2003 that they are down? More than likely its a network or router issue. My main 2003 server has been up for nearly 4 years with less than 4 hours total down time. That had nothing to do with the OS. Had a powersupply die, and a motherboard die, and one time the power supply going to my rack died. Never had a lick of downtime due to win 2003. Thats stable. :thumbsup

windows and stable in the same sentence? :1orglaugh

Humour me, I'm ignorant as hell when it comes to Windows -

Why would anyone choose Windows as a server OS over *nix?

For me its way more stable then any nix server Ive ever had. Streaming Windows Media server is another. I prefer IIS over apache. Its slowly gaining more and more use. If you want to do any gaming server hosting (which is what I used to do) you need to use Win 2003 if you want patches that come out first etc. P2P application hosting etc etc etc.

their up and running for me. they have been up and down in speed for me at times today.

IIS.. lol go 4 lighthttp

I think it depends on the system admin when it comes to Windows Server. I use to know somebody who was a crazy window sys admin who challenged every hacker to hack his box. Not one hacker ever got in or damage anything on his server except use up bandwidth.

pussycash.com is up and running fine, if anyone has a problem please hit me up.

I only got nailed once, and It only took me about 30 minutes to fix what they did. I was in Japan for 2 weeks and a patch was released to stop a insecurity that allowed someone to gain box access. They apparently probed the whole network my box was on, cause several unpatched boxes on the network got hit. Wasnt any big deal luckily. Thats the only time Ive got hit though. Win 2003 is super stable for me. :thumbsup

It's all about the system admin on windows servers... .NET is slowly becomming standard for most big mainstream sites (the new bestbuy website is gonna be all .NET and C sharp for example). Windows servers are slowly getting more popular.

This business is very anti-windows for some reason. We're nearly serving 2 million page viewed a day out of windows servers without any problems and downtimes.

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server is a well rounded server OS. I have 7 servers running 2003 and 4 running FreeBSD or Red Hat. The Unix servers have had less that 30 minutes downtime due to errors in the last 11 months. The Windows servers have been down well over 3 hours in the last 4 months.

I doubt PussyCash's issues are due to Windows Server 2003 but you never know these days.

I think the main reason why it is so popular is due to licensing and a history of reliablility. It can cost thousands upon thousands of dollars to stay in compliance if running a Windows Server, not Unix. Unix is free baby, and this is coming from a Microsoft Certified Engineer/Administrator!!