subject: Re: Interesting Site Trivia posted: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:05:30 -0000
Sven,
It's interesting, but the last I heard, dear old hotmail.com was still running BSD unix. And if you have ever
attempted to research M$ issues you'll know that they don't do such a great job of managing their 2.5
million files. I regularly get 404's even when following links on their own site.
I would have imagined that with the resources available, they would be able to afford a package like
Dreamweaver, which can update links automatically.
And I have seen "site too busy" on microsoft.com multiple times.
But most importantly, anyone with half a clue will know that it's *extremely* unlikely that one vendor (M$)
will be able to provide the best product in each class. That is, to provide a web service, you need an OS, a
webserver, a database and various back-end tools (such as the load balancing software).
If you take a look inside the IT shops of any respectable organisation you'll see they have cisco switches,
bay networks hubs, watchguard firewalls, unix operating systems, a mix of databases (DB2, Ingres,
Oracle), and there's a 63% chance they run an Apache webserver.
They do this because each component is the best in its class, and they seek to provide the best mix of
components in order to provide the best quality of service to their customers, and to maximise internal
efficiency and effectiveness.
Therefore, it must follow that a organisation with only one brand of everything - with all its eggs in one
basket - is not only setting itself up for a large fall, but it's also screwing over its customers.
But then, we knew all this about M$ already.
Cheers :)
Stuart
On 6 Nov 2002 at 16:27, Sven Suba wrote:
> Interesting Site Trivia
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/inside.htm > <http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/inside.htm>
>
> Have you ever considered the vast expanse that is Microsoft.com? I'll
> admit that I have, and I can't say I envy the administrators of a site
> that contains some 2.5 million pages! That's just one of the statistics
> providing a little perspective on what goes into maintaining such a
> site.
>
> Traffic
>
> * 20 million page views per day
> * 5.5 million users per day
> * 68 million users a month
>
> Content
>
> * 80 GB of content
> * 2.5 million files total
> * 1.1 million HTML and ASP files
> * 855,000 GIF or JPG image files
> * About 100 GB of files available for download
> * Content updated continuously around the clock
>
> Hardware
>
> * Four dedicated gigE uplinks provide a total of 4000 MB uplink
> capacity
> * Multiple OC48s provide connectivity to the Internet
> * Runs on Compaq Proliant ML570 and Dell Power Edge 6450 servers
> with four PIII-Xeon/700 Mhz processors, 1 GB Memory, 120 GB Content
> Capacity, and 34 GB Log Capacity each
>
> Software
>
> * Windows .NET
> * Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0
> * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
> * Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0
> * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 to supply our search catalogs
> * Microsoft SQL Server 2000
> * Other Microsoft tools and applications, including MS XML, SQL
> XMLX, MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Connectivity), NLB (Network Load
> Balancing)
>
>
>
>
>
> Sven Suba
>
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