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BBC News Under The Bonnet

Posted by Zonk on from the that'd-be-hood-in-the-us dept.

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."

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  1. whoops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else read that as "BBC under the botnet" ?

    1. Re:whoops by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

      The BBC is staffed with Amish women?

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      Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
    2. Re:whoops by evilmonkey_666 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You can never be too careful, when I was in school in california I once asked the teacher for a rubber (eraser). She thought I wanted a condom.

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      - PS. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R where eliminated.
    3. Re:whoops by rjshields · · Score: 3, Funny

      An american woman in the pub was talking about her sore fanny (bottom). Everyone thought she was talking about her vagina.

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      In this world nothing is certain but death, taxes and flawed car analogies.
  2. FYI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bonnet is to the British what Hood is to Americans.

    See? It makes sense now.

    They also have a better name for speed bumps - "sleeping policemen".

  3. I'm not impressed by awhelan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, that looks pretty good, but just in case... here's a mirror

  4. Re:9th most popular web site by Neil+Blender · · Score: 3, Funny

    how is microsoft.com in 3rd place?

    Massive downloading of security fixes, I assume.

  5. BBC a favorite target by bobalu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, if I could only watch BBC news at my local bar without someone asking why I hate America!

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    1. Re:BBC a favorite target by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ah, if I could only watch BBC news at my local bar without someone asking why I hate America!

      Why do you hate America?

  6. So I guess that means.. by Weaselmancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...British rappers are from da Bonnet?

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    Weaselmancer
    rediculous.
  7. Re:Revealed? by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's funny... my Apache servers return a Windows NT 4 message. And my Windows servers return an Apache message.

    Just to screw with the kiddies.

  8. I do love those 'Content Based' websites by spun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks to this article, now I can make a content based website, too! Maybe now people will come to my site. All I had before were blank pages.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  9. Re:9th most popular GIRL ON THE WEB by Thud457 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Safe for Work, just NSFL (Not Safe for your Lunch). Actually, nothing horrific, just a very unflattering picture of a not too pretty person.

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    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  10. Too bad Linux can't rescue the EU from itself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They should really consider removing nations from the EU that don't want to ratify the new constitution.