Walt Mankowski on Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:36:26 -0500 (EST)


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Re: Amazon Boycott, continued (fwd)


On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 02:06:55AM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote:
> Let's not forget that microsoft.com is running IIS/NT.  It's one of the
> largest sites on the web, in terms of content, authors, hit counts, 
> and probably any other metric short of ferrets-per-packet.
> 
> Walt's story about QVC doesn't appear to be an aberrant case.
> 
> Of course, that does not address the frustration level that goes
> hand-in-hand with IIS, managing NT or running the only server on the
> planet that returns '503: Server Too Busy' errors.

I should point out that, although we're running IIS/NT, we're only
using ASP on a few low-traffic areas of the site.  Most of out content
is either static (which no one disputes that IIS can handle well),
ISAPI DLL's, or Perl CGI scripts.

Walt
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