Big name web sites and the platforms they run on (was: Skype and Asterisk)

[Bill McGonigle]

On Sep 28, 2008, at 13:32, Ben Scott wrote:

> My information is a few years out of date, but circa 2000, eBay's
> front-end web servers was a Windows cluster, running IIS.

It looks like it still is... at least Netcraft says so.   hrm, I  
could have sworn they presented their infrastructure at LinuxWorld  
Expo a few years ago...

>   Twitter runs on Ruby/Rails, MySQL, and Linux, and has had a rather
> poor time scaling to handle growth, so I'm not sure we should be proud
> of that.

Yeah, well, there's only so much you can do without a scalable  
architecture.  It's funny, my Firefox URL cache has learned 'Twitter  
- Over Capacity' as the permanent title for 'twitter.com'.


-Bill

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