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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. Do they have article on nullification? by Eunuch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The BBC could help me then. After having been castrated, I am going to go get my penis and scrotum taken off. I will be left with a small hole to urinate from. But no vagina. I don't want to be a woman. I want to be asexual. Slashdot is my inspiration! Thank you for all your +5 insightful posts.

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    Transcend Humanity. Please.
  2. 9th most popular GIRL ON THE WEB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cHECK THIS HONEY OUT

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    She a real looker huh?