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Re: [PLUG] Netraverse LUG Sponsorship Program
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They use IIS boxes out front - redirecting to the FreeBSD boxes inthe
back. That way it appears teh site runs on IIS.
> On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 09:43, Michael Leone wrote:
>> True. As is mine. But mine is a little rinky-dink personal site, that
>> no one (including me :-) cares about. What percentage of big sites (or
>> busy sites, or well known sites) run Apache? Amazon, Google, etc.
>> Places that you wouldn't qualify as "hobbyist" or "light-duty".
>
> Both of the sites you just mentioned, to start with. Along with HotMail,
> Yahoo! and Terra Lycos, you have 5 of the top 10 sites on the Web
> running Apache. (MSN runs IIS, and is only one of the top sites because
> people are too lazy to change the default homepage in IE)
>
> P.S. Yes, I know they said they switched to IIS at Hotmail. However,
> after the DDoS outages in 2000 and 2001, they noted (correctly) that the
> only boxes that didn't go down were the legacy Apache/BSD boxes, so they
> decided to keep using Apache/BSD. It's all in the Halloween documents
> somewhere...
>
> --
> << Tobias DiPasquale >>
> UNIX Software Engineer
> http://cbcg.net/
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