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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. 9th most popular web site by Malc · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to Netcraft, they're the 9th most popular site on the web. That's after several variations of Google, and toolbar.netcraft.com... so take with heaps of NaCl.

    1. Re:9th most popular web site by zootm · · Score: 2, Informative

      Interesting stats. I wonder how microsoft.com is ahead of msn.com? Or for that matter, how is microsoft.com in 3rd place?

      Try typing a URL without the : on a windows box, for example http//google.com (you'll need to paste that into a new window).

  2. Re:whoops by evilmonkey_666 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bonnet means hood for all you Americans.

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  3. Re:but how does it compare by Daniel_Staal · · Score: 4, Informative

    See the comment directly above you: BBC is the world's 9th busiest site, /. is the 32nd.

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  4. Re:A good reason to leave pop-ups on by Insipid+Trunculance · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wish i wouldnt rise to obvious trolls.But i cant resist and yet i havent anything better to say than this Guy

    Now you know why we love the Aunty.

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