Does anyone know the technology stack used for front and backend by POF?
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PlentyOfFish - 6 Billion Pageviews And 32 Billion Images A Month
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#22I will be more impressed when they stop storing plain text passwords.
It's almost as impressive as the UI.
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#23I'm not sure I believe this and here is why: At one point Highscalability covered the reddit architecture, but he didn't actually talk to anyone at reddit about it, and got a lot of it wrong. I tried to contact him and get it fixed, but he never responded to me. So I have to wonder where these numbers are coming from.
Jedberg, I'm sorry I didn't respond, but I don't have a record of getting an email. Corrections are always welcome. A lot of articles are summaries from multiple sources, so they aren't made up (I'm not sure how I would even do that), and the sources are always referenced somewhere. But of course I could screw up. And I don't make an effort to contact people anymore because seldom is there a contact point and they ra…
I tried to contact you through the form on your site. Regardless, I wasn't accusing you of making things up, I was just stating that sometimes you don't use very reliable sources (like blog posts that may also be unreliable).
I don't work at reddit anymore, so I can't speak to their setup, but if you ever need help with an article on Netflix, let me know!
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#24He used to post on webmasterworld as he was developing the site. Some interesting stuff. And it's on IIS which blew my mind. webmasterworld.com/profilev4.cgi?action=view&member=markus007
> And it's on IIS which blew my mind.
I think that says a lot more about you than about IIS. It's mature software, why wouldn't it perform on par with other mature webservers?
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jedberg, I'm sorry I didn't respond, but I don't have a record of getting an email. Corrections are always welcome. A lot of articles are summaries from multiple sources, so they aren't made up (I'm not sure how I would even do that), and the sources are always referenced somewhere. But of course I could screw up. And I don't make an effort to contact people anymore because seldom is there a contact point and they ra…
I tried to contact you through the form on your site. Regardless, I wasn't accusing you of making things up, I was just stating that sometimes you don't use very reliable sources (like blog posts that may also be unreliable). I don't work at reddit anymore, so I can't speak to their setup, but if you ever need help with an article on Netflix, let me know!
Do an article on Netflix!
NAO!
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried to contact you through the form on your site. Regardless, I wasn't accusing you of making things up, I was just stating that sometimes you don't use very reliable sources (like blog posts that may also be unreliable). I don't work at reddit anymore, so I can't speak to their setup, but if you ever need help with an article on Netflix, let me know!
Do an article on Netflix! NAO!
What does "NAO" mean?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried to contact you through the form on your site. Regardless, I wasn't accusing you of making things up, I was just stating that sometimes you don't use very reliable sources (like blog posts that may also be unreliable). I don't work at reddit anymore, so I can't speak to their setup, but if you ever need help with an article on Netflix, let me know!
Do an article on Netflix! NAO!
This is the best public information about how Netflix works:
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#29I know Markus from good 'ol webmasterworld days when he was a active affiliate marketer. He is really a bright guy and POF's initial growth was mainly from SEO (until the network effects kicked in).
If i remember correctly until a few years ago the site ran on a single webserver and db server!.
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#30Does anyone know the technology stack used for front and backend by POF?
It used to be based on IIS and ASP.NET (one of the biggest Microsoft success stories on those technologies). Edit: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlentyofFish they used ASP.NET 2.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in 2007.
To be fair, its one of the biggest success stories that you know of. In interviewing for a CIO from some top companies, I was a little surprised to discover how many large sites you are using on a daily basis that are .Net with IIS / SQL. Personally, where I work, we have been very very successful with our MS stack. We have been in the Inc 5000 for the last 4 years and in the Inc 500 (top 20) 1 year.