Basically critical infrastructure Depends on linux
Critical infrastructure with Computers runs on Linux that's the thing. of the worlds 25 most popular websites only 2 of them use anything other than Linux.
When you run a Website that's intended to make money you need uptime as close to 100% as possible and so you run it on Linux because it's very rare it needs to be rebooted.
Even a few minutes of down time for Some website like Ebay, Amazon( Or any of the merchants that sell online like Shopify and a whole diversity of other websites) can end up costing the company Millions of dollars. if not billions.
That's why DDOS threats are so feared and there's so much mitigation against them.
Why Cloudflare is super important and why it matters that Linux can apply security patches without being rebooted. Your Production server HAS to be up for almost 100% of the time and even if it isn't then you need to have backups elsewhere that cover the time its down.
When you run a Website that's intended to make money you need uptime as close to 100% as possible and so you run it on Linux because it's very rare it needs to be rebooted.
Even a few minutes of down time for Some website like Ebay, Amazon( Or any of the merchants that sell online like Shopify and a whole diversity of other websites) can end up costing the company Millions of dollars. if not billions.
That's why DDOS threats are so feared and there's so much mitigation against them.
Why Cloudflare is super important and why it matters that Linux can apply security patches without being rebooted. Your Production server HAS to be up for almost 100% of the time and even if it isn't then you need to have backups elsewhere that cover the time its down.
