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He 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
I could be mistaken but I am pretty sure Stack Overflow also runs on IIS.
I can't find the blog post right now but currently there is a little Linux/Redis thrown in as well.
...and yet the site is one of the most unusable, unfriendly, and unattractive dating sites out there.
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Take all this with a grain of salt, as I'm about to get vague and handwave-y. According to some article I read [citation needed], the fact that their interface is crap actually drives more pageviews. E.g., that profile pictures are distorted is searches actually encourages people to click through to profiles to see better-looking photos. So poor usability actually is a feature. Which comes back to the old argument ab…
The article you refer to is this: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...
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It isn't to say a lot of people thought it was impossible, but it is just very unheard of. Anecdotally, most of the people I know hadn't heard of it either. Slashdot, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc were the very large sites talking about what they used over the years and it was all about the open source stuff like Apache, PHP, etc. Then I found out, on HN, that POF used IIS and it was mind blowing. You would think even Mic…
Here's another mind-blower: enom runs the largest IIS server farm in the world (at least they did up to a few years ago) Can't find a direct link but I remember that little factoid because it surprised me. I don't mean customer servers sold as services, this was before then, it's their own server network.
Frind was making $10 million USD per year when he had 1.2 billion page views. If his revenue scales directly to pageviews (which I think it does), he should be bringing in about $50M per year. Not bad.
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I could be mistaken but I am pretty sure Stack Overflow also runs on IIS.
It does. http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture I can't find the blog post right now but currently there is a little Linux/Redis thrown in as well.
We use Linux for caching, load balancing, routing, monitoring, etc. The web tier and databases are Windows.
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> 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?
It isn't to say a lot of people thought it was impossible, but it is just very unheard of. Anecdotally, most of the people I know hadn't heard of it either. Slashdot, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc were the very large sites talking about what they used over the years and it was all about the open source stuff like Apache, PHP, etc. Then I found out, on HN, that POF used IIS and it was mind blowing. You would think even Mic…
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