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I too initially thought the same. We rarely see any post on someone using IIS on HN. However, if you take a look at the amount of resources they use(they say th

I too initially thought the same. We rarely see any post on someone using IIS on HN. However, if you take a look at the amount of resources they use(they say they need only one web server) , it is clear that their stack is working very well for them.

timrichard 9y ago
To truly consider this as "a benchmark of the MS stack at scale", it would only be fair to factor out HAProxy, Redis, and Elasticsearch. And I suspect it wouldn't fare too well.
nine_k 9y ago
They run very few servers, but the machines they use are huge dedicated servers, with as much RAM as the board would support. They published descriptions of their hardware stack several times. This is very different from the typical modern architecture, with many smaller nodes scaled on demand in a cloud.