Yes, it can, but Pingdom checks for that. They don’t just see, “is this site available to the public,” they check to see if the machine itself responds to pings and such, if I’m not mistaken. That would imply that it’s more than the site being inaccessible.

And I admit that there are other factors.

Either way, perhaps my headline is a little over the top, and questionable as to whether it’s entirely true. The original post at royal.pingdom.com had a less controversial title, but it reads a little awkwardly.

Anyway, the charts are available over at Royal Pingdom. Make of them as you will.

I’m not one to attack writers, and I’m also not one to defend windows over other options out there unless there is good reason. But a website’s up-time has so many other parameters and other dependencies that trying to relate its measure to the up-time of the physical server that hosts it is much too broad of a perspective.

Ask yourself this. Can a website be down while a server is up? Yes.That being said, your case is thrown out.

Now that’s not saying your statement is true or false. And if I was a betting man I’d guess Windows servers really do have a greater down-time than Mac or Linux devices. But lets not make grand statements such as your title without more accurate data.

Cheers. Dan.