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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
Does 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.
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Another point in function over design, just like Craigslist.
Not really. Contrast the cluttered mess that is PoF to OkCupid, which has decent usability and reasonable information architecture. OkC's design is also better at extracting the right information from more users more consistently, meaning the resulting corpus of data is more complete. Which makes for a better product, since it's easier to find the sort of people you'd be into. PoF is successful in spite of its questi…
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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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Not really. Contrast the cluttered mess that is PoF to OkCupid, which has decent usability and reasonable information architecture. OkC's design is also better at extracting the right information from more users more consistently, meaning the resulting corpus of data is more complete. Which makes for a better product, since it's easier to find the sort of people you'd be into. PoF is successful in spite of its questi…
Sounds like a worse is better case study.
Even with that factor though, I found PoF borderline unusable after a little experimentation and stopped using them in favour of OKC. I can't believe I'm the only one like that, or that there aren't some who simply dropped off PoF into nothing.
If that crappy site can extract value at such a high level, I'm sure a few reasonably small tweaks could extract significantly more.
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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…
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.
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
> 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?
IIS 5.x was horrible which is what most people who have been around think about when we hear "IIS".
So around 2.3k HPS monthly average. Assuming an average peak is 10 times that, 23k HPS seems a little little high but doable for a handful of servers (after load balancing and caching come into play). One note says "everything is dynamic, nothing is static" which sounds weird if they're using Akamai for anything but images. Images are claimed to be served at 100K HPS, which would be difficult for a handful of servers…