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BBC News Under The Bonnet
diodesign writes "BBC News has revealed that Linux and Apache power its popular news website, along with a modified DNS server and machine farms in New York and London. At peak times, the site serves over 4 million users and 50 million page impressions a day. It's a pretty well explained guide to producing a regularly updated content based website that scales well." From the article: "The technology which serves the site is designed to be as simple as possible. The simpler the site, the cheaper it is to run. There are fewer elements which can malfunction on big days; and there are fewer parts which can be compromised by someone trying to gain unauthorised access."
There is a law that you need to own a TV licence to have a TV, that's how the BBC is funded. It's a criminal offence not to have one, but that doesn't mean it's government controlled.
That's even scarier: the Government is reduced to a mere goon in the service of the BBC Mafia. Pay up or the Minister of Grievous Bodily Harm over there will break yer legs.
That level of government intrusion is, to an American, pretty goddamned objectionable. As are various Secrecy and Censorship acts that Britons and Canadians are way too comfortable with.