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The Setup Behind Microsoft.com

Posted by kdawson on from the matter-of-scale dept.

Toreo asesino writes "Jeff Alexander gives an insight into how Microsoft runs its main sites. Interesting details include having no firewall, having to manage 650 GB of IIS logs every day, and the use of their yet unreleased Windows Server 2008 in a production environment.

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  1. Mostly how they run it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    is have some crazy sys admins throw chairs around.

    1. Re:Mostly how they run it by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 3, Funny

      With Microsoft Windows Server 2008, chairs practically throw themselves!

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  2. Firewall Schmirewall by mrtroy · · Score: 5, Funny

    No firewall? Of course not!

    Microsoft servers are notorious for their invulnerability.

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    1. Re:Firewall Schmirewall by MstrFool · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, remember the story a while back about MS using Linux for some things? I think we just found where they use it. Storing their logs in /dev/nul is the most likely way they deal with 650 GB of logs.

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    2. Re:Firewall Schmirewall by rasputin465 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Storing their logs in /dev/nul is the most likely way they deal with 650 GB of logs.

      Well geez.. in that case I sure hope they do regular backups of /dev/null! ;-)

    3. Re:Firewall Schmirewall by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

      Inventing some binary format is pointless I'm guessing you have no prior experience with Microsoft Office then..
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      which is totally what she said
    4. Re:Firewall Schmirewall by marcansoft · · Score: 3, Funny

      $ cat /dev/null | gzip - > devnull.gz
      $

      Works fine for me. Are you sure you're not confusing /dev/null with /dev/zero? The latter's a real bitch, it's always too large for my destination drive! Gzip helps though; you can get compression ratios of approximately 2000:1.

    5. Re:Firewall Schmirewall by darthnoodles · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes I am confusing them. I'm not really a Linux/Unix guy. I'm just pretending.

  3. Priceless... by orclevegam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cisco Router: ~$700
    Server to run it on: ~$2000
    Beta testing Microsofts new server 2008 in a production environment: Priceless

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  4. Re:Beta in production environment. by JCSoRocks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tis a sad day when the fanbois can't even get their insults right. shameful.

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  5. Re:HBI? by orclevegam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Humongously Bad Interface. That's the internal name for all new MS APIs.

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  6. Swimming in acronym soup... by thatseattleguy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Could someone with more Microsoft Kool-Aid in their veins stick their fork in the acronym salad that is this article? ACL (Access Control Lists - which technically are a firewall), DoS (denial of service attacks) and IPS (intrusion protection services) I all know, but WTF are:


    HBI?
    GFS (is the G for "Ghost")?
    NBI?
    NLB?
    ACE?


    TIA :),
    /tsg/

  7. Re:Beta in production environment. by vtscott · · Score: 5, Funny
    And of course it's already been modded up (at least only as funny). To clarify why the GP is wrong, from the wikipedia entry on Windows server 2008:

    Windows Server 2008 introduces most of the new features from Windows Vista to Windows Server. This is a similar relationship to that between Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.

    Gotta give credit to MS for eating their own dog food...

    Allow incoming connection on port 80? Confirm/deny

  8. Re:Supporting by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 3, Funny

    The highly objective and insightful article mentions, for example,

    "Windows and IIS...rock solid and secure!"

    Talc is technically a rock...

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  9. Re:Microsoft brainwashing by jez9999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uh, didn't I read an article not too long ago about how the update.microsoft.com site was broken into?

    Link, please? http://update.microsoft.com/
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  10. Re:Beta in production environment. by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

    Program WinYes! is trying to perform an action on a dialog box. Allow/Deny?

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    which is totally what she said