Nothing wrong with using Windows at all. That wasn't the problem.
As for the actual problem here of any down time (and the nonsense competence claims).
PRC never really got out of "Beta", as soon as we were beta testing the poker people wanted the site to stay up and have me just add things to it.
So what was the problem this time?
"We never really got out of beta"? Maybe you should warn investors that you are still in a testing phase before inviting them to invest...
"We never really got out of beta" for poker and casino. The dice was added on to that system but there has been massive improvements to it.
There is nothing wrong with the dice game at all. Just slower than it could be when there are a lot of users or bets/second and there can be some downtime once in a while like any site.
You didn't answer the question. If there's nothing wrong with the game, and there's nothing wrong with the hosting, why was it down for hours?
It's not like JD never went down, a quick Google search comes up with quite a lot of threads e.g.
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Sorry for the downtime. I caught a few hours' sleep and it looks like the server took a nap too. It has happened twice before, and I don't know what triggers it.
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I know your being anal as usual but I said there's nothing wrong with the dice game (code), there's nothing wrong with the hosting (meaning Windows vs Linux) but as you should know since you had it happen to you a few times, servers have problems no matter what OS or code is running on them.
No matter what host you choose you will experience some downtime....which if you setup things right you can mitigate. I don't know how you had JD set up in the end but it was down a few times not long before you closed so obviously not perfect but I guess you still just love trolling.
Here's Azure's SLA
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/and if a site was hosting on Amazons cloud here's their SLA
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/sla/So to answer your question. One of the servers went down.
That is something that is being worked on so as to minimise, as the players and investors know.