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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.

  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 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! ;-)

    2. 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
  3. 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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  4. 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/

  5. 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

  6. 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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