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500,000 websites still use Windows 2000
http://www.neowin.net/news/thousands-of-websites-are-hosted-by-windows-xp-but-500000-still-use-windows-2000
Windows 2000 was released to manufacturing in December 1999 and to the general public in February 2000, and lost support in July 2010. Which means Win2000 is a 15 year-old OS, considered obsolete at this point. 50,000 websites use the even older Windows NT 4.0, released in 1996. Comment. |
I've used 2000 DC Server. 16 colours and CRT resolutions ftw
Honestly though it's probably just businesses with lacking IT support who're reluctant to upgrade. It'd probably be easier to upgrade if they were using Linux like every site worth anything nowadays, too. smh |
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That said, we definitely are not stuck on 2000 or even NT. We try to keep as far ahead of support drop dates as reasonably possible. Granted, the article in the OP is about a year out of date... so a few of those sites could have been migrated by now. |
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Linux is loads easier to work with than IIS from what I’ve seen. It’s really simple and elegant – there are a few SSH commands you end up memorizing and then there’s SFTP… there are how-tos for setting up HTTP environments which I admittedly still follow today… building from source of course. The Yum repos have stable LAMP stacks which are as easy to get as a couple commands. You ought to try it out. Maybe you’ll like it, no? |
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Time constraints is why on that second point, really. Plus, IIS isn't as difficult as some people claim it is, hence why so many do use it and its predecessors. |
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Distribution-specific errors are only a concern if you’re using a nobody distro. And… why would you do that? Also I don’t understand where you’re coming from with time constraints. Not to mention paying money for something that has a better-documented, easier, faster, free alternative just… doesn’t make any sense to me. I’m sure Express is missing some bells and whistles too. |
I was an IIS user from 2010-2013, when I took my personal page offline indefinitely. IIS is by far one of the easiest server components I have ever set up, and to add to that, it has a nice graphical interface and easy navigation.
With that in mind, let's please try not to derail the topic any further. If you want to discuss IIS or any web server applications, please take that to a new topic. |
Sometimes it does make me shudder, if only for a bit, on how some old software persist to this very day.
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This is kinda weird to think about to be honest, I know that some college and even private school computers used XP for a while even when Windows Vista had been released, but if we knew where these places were, then maybe it'd be understandable, but alas.
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Businesses can be really ignorant about IT. Like the whole thing about having paper copies of everything digital, we have websites still running Server 2000. I think no one’s to blame – it’s just lost to bureaucracy. Only my first high school, FFCHS, had Windows 7 going on all their PCs. I got an inside look at the school’s IT department and they were working on new laptops with 8.1 and SSDs, with multi-image drives for imaging. All the other schools I was at had ancient computers running XP on severely dated ThinkCentres that looked like they hadn’t seen a dust rag in thirty years… achoo! |
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Meanwhile in Romania 70% of all companies still use Windows 2000/XP. |
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