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."

Comments

I'm not impressed

[awhelan]

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

So I guess that means..

[Weaselmancer]

...British rappers are from da Bonnet?

Re:but how does it compare

[Daniel_Staal]

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