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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."
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.
Yeah, that looks pretty good, but just in case... here's a mirror
...British rappers are from da Bonnet?
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Bonnet means hood for all you Americans.
- PS. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R where eliminated.
The BBC is staffed with Amish women?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
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.
- PS. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R where eliminated.
they use SSI (Server Side Includes) to put their sidebar items into each story. Seems like a bit of an antiquated method for these days, no?
If the wheel is still round, why re-invent it?
BBC's site is not ad-driven, and content changes are infrequent enough that redeploying from their backend CMS is good enough. Their edge servers don't require a great deal of dynamicism, and SSI seems to meet their needs, so why not.
See the comment directly above you: BBC is the world's 9th busiest site, /. is the 32nd.
'Sensible' is a curse word.
An american woman in the pub was talking about her sore fanny (bottom). Everyone thought she was talking about her vagina.
In this world nothing is certain but death, taxes and flawed car analogies.