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> And it's on IIS which blew my mind. I think that says a lot more about you than about IIS. It's mature software, why wouldn't it perform on par with other ma

> And it's on IIS which blew my mind. I think that says a lot more about you than about IIS. It's mature software, why wouldn't it perform on par with other mature webservers?

27182818284 15y ago
It isn't to say a lot of people thought it was impossible, but it is just very unheard of. Anecdotally, most of the people I know hadn't heard of it either. Slashdot, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc were the very large sites talking about what they used over the years and it was all about the open source stuff like Apache, PHP, etc. Then I found out, on HN, that POF used IIS and it was mind blowing. You would think even Microsoft would promote its successful uses more like that. Until POF, I too had assumed IIS was only for 1,000 to 50,000 enterprisey setups. I didn't think it couldn't be used per se, but I just hadn't ever heard of it being used that way until POF either.
- eftpotrm 15y ago
  Hotmail, for one, moved to IIS from its bought-in FreeBSD roots many years ago.
- ck2 15y ago
  Here's another mind-blower: enom runs the largest IIS server farm in the world (at least they did up to a few years ago) Can't find a direct link but I remember that little factoid because it surprised me. I don't mean customer servers sold as services, this was before then, it's their own server network.
  - philjr 15y ago
    I don't know what enom is like anymore, but when I used enom back in 2006 to 2009 I wouldn't have used them as a poster boy for anything technology related. Sporadic API failures, unexpected "lost" registrations etc. etc. If I had to choose again, I'd be choosing OpenSRS
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  According to Wikipedia, it's the second most widely-used web server after Apache. Go figure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services#Usage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services#U...
ck2 15y ago
If you are thinking of modern IIS (v7+) it is a complete rewrite so technically not "mature" software at all. IIS 5.x was horrible which is what most people who have been around think about when we hear "IIS".

> And it's on IIS which blew my mind. I think that says a lot more about you than about IIS. It's mature software, why wouldn't it perform on par with other mature webservers?

27182818284 15y ago

It isn't to say a lot of people thought it was impossible, but it is just very unheard of. Anecdotally, most of the people I know hadn't heard of it either. Slashdot, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc were the very large sites talking about what they used over the years and it was all about the open source stuff like Apache, PHP, etc. Then I found out, on HN, that POF used IIS and it was mind blowing. You would think even Microsoft would promote its successful uses more like that. Until POF, I too had assumed IIS was only for 1,000 to 50,000 enterprisey setups. I didn't think it couldn't be used per se, but I just hadn't ever heard of it being used that way until POF either.

eftpotrm 15y ago
Hotmail, for one, moved to IIS from its bought-in FreeBSD roots many years ago.
ck2 15y ago
Here's another mind-blower: enom runs the largest IIS server farm in the world (at least they did up to a few years ago) Can't find a direct link but I remember that little factoid because it surprised me. I don't mean customer servers sold as services, this was before then, it's their own server network.
- philjr 15y ago
  I don't know what enom is like anymore, but when I used enom back in 2006 to 2009 I wouldn't have used them as a poster boy for anything technology related. Sporadic API failures, unexpected "lost" registrations etc. etc. If I had to choose again, I'd be choosing OpenSRS
redthrowaway 15y ago
According to Wikipedia, it's the second most widely-used web server after Apache. Go figure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services#Usage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services#U...

ck2 15y ago

If you are thinking of modern IIS (v7+) it is a complete rewrite so technically not "mature" software at all. IIS 5.x was horrible which is what most people who have been around think about when we hear "IIS".