subject: RE: Interesting Site Trivia posted: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:18:12 -0000
man,
> "And if you have ever attempted to research M$ issues you'll know
> that...."
>
> Hey man.....chill....I was just forwarding you an interesting article.
I know, that's OK I was just getting into it. :) You know I'm a big M$ fan. :) I wasn't having a go! Well,
not at your good self, at any rate.
> I agree with your statement, but....(And I'm not sticking up for M$), M$
> are going to use their own products aren't they? They are probably not
> the best in each class but they do work well and integrate nicely.
boo! hiss! :-)
> I don't think M$ are too worried about their situation at the moment.
> Last I heard they are still making money.....a lot of money......more
> than the rest of the vendors you mention put together. And their
> products are holding together one of the largest, if not the largest,
> web site in the history of man kind.
Yeah yeah. Archive.org holds 12 billion pages and it runs Apache... although I did check and the hotmail
server I checked was in fact running IIS5, not Apache.
Just because they are making lots of money doesn't mean they are any good. I spent quite a while
learning about .NET this morning, and I am certain it's a dead technology. The future is all built on open
standards, and .NET isn't.
Just my 0.02E-06c dude.
Stuart :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lsi [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2002 8:06 PM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]; Sven Suba
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Interesting Site Trivia
>
> 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
> >
> > Systems Implementation Specialist
> >
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> >
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> >
> > West Perth 6005
> >
> > Australia
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > Fax: +61 8 9226 3279
> >
> > Email: [email protected]
> >
> > Web: http://www.rmaust.com.au <http://www.rmaust.com.au/>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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