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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. Sl
by 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 agoHotmail, for one, moved to IIS from its bought-in FreeBSD roots many years ago.
- ck2 15y agoHere'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 agoI 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 agoAccording 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...