BBC News Under The Bonnet

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 3, 2005 @06:53AM 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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Re:A good reason to leave pop-ups on by PaxTech · 2005-06-03 07:39 · Score: 0, Troll

And the BBC is not run by the government, the BBC collects the licence fee itself.

Does the BBC put you in a BBC owned prison if you refuse to pay the licence fee? How would they enforce such a thing without the government's help and consent?

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