Also runs on a Linux server (CentOS, PHP, Apache, etc etc), sigh I wish the Hacker News community disliked these kind of articles (at the moment is top 1). Thi

Also runs on a Linux server (CentOS, PHP, Apache, etc etc), sigh I wish the Hacker News community disliked these kind of articles (at the moment is top 1). This is what probably happened, Microsoft (assuming the site is from Microsoft) hired a consultancy (they do this all the time) to build the site for them and take care of everything (including the content). If you're a contractor, you probably have a lot of templates and plugins that use Google's products and an Open Source stack.