Re:What you're really paying (Score 1)

Once again, it goes to the orginal set-up. It does not sound like you have any thing near an 'everyday' linux box - or more to the point - the appropriate IT personnel to assemble a linux box of any type. Let's call a spade a spade - we have had our share also of IT personnel that shouldn't have built the linux box either. We learned quickly those boxes wouldn't stay up from the get-go. It truly sounds like your people are starting with insufficient foundations. As for attacks -our servers stay under attack numbering tens of hostile hits per second - and the generalities of uptime, our experience is that a proper linux build stays up until we decide to bring it down (6-7-8-9-months uptime), usually these days to pop in more cheap ram. btw, our linux server to windows server ratio is 6:1