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Does anyone know who actually deploys Windows based cloud/Internet-facing systems? All the big corporate IT shops I've consulted for only used Windows servers t
by pedrocr 16y ago
Does anyone know who actually deploys Windows based cloud/Internet-facing systems? All the big corporate IT shops I've consulted for only used Windows servers to support Windows clients and that kind of stuff doesn't move to the cloud well. All the big Internet companies (Google, Facebook, etc) deploy on Linux as far as I've seen. Most startups I've heard about deploy on Linux VPS/Heroku/AppEngine type infrastructures. I also though most of the 3D rendering was being done on Linux but maybe that is not the case.
The only example I've seen of windows deployment was dpreview.com, and the comments I read from them were in the line of "it's not as bad as everyone says it is and we're familiar with the stack so we use it".
Is windows a large percentage of EC2 for example? I tried to google for that but couldn't find anything.
- bkhl 16y agoThis might help: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/evidence/ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/evidence/
- pedrocr 16y agoThanks for that. A lot of them seem to be one-off projects. I'm still trying to find how much of EC2 runs windows but can't seem to locate that figure.
- bkhl 16y agoI'm not sure if Amazon would disclose that number. It can be a sensitive number for a company to make business strategy.
- d_r 16y agoI cannot see the content on that page at all without updating my Silverlight (that I just installed last month) to a new version. I love Microsoft.
- jemfinch 16y agoI recollect reading (no citation, sorry) that Vimeo has Windows instances running in EC2 in order to transcode video from Microsoft formats.
- ch0wn 16y agoClosed the page after > 30 seconds load time. Great performance evidence.