On 21 Mar 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> "jack wallen, jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The site www.hotmail.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.
>
> That only say what the front web server is running... the back is
> still running on Solaris, AFAIR.
Microsoft's woes with Hotmail and Windows NT are fairly well documented.
Here is one link:
http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/hotmail.html
Indeed, Microsoft's HotMail, Disney, Compaq, and many other popular sites
appear to serve their sites using IIS, but the servers are usually just
proxies for content stored on real servers, often running Solaris or Linux.
Part of this is because of PR -- many companies have signed service
contracts with Microsoft that require high profile MS deployments -- and
also because IIS can (when well administered) be a good server for stattic
and cached content.
There is a long standing rumor floating around that the majority of
Microsoft's static site is actually served from custom webservers running
on MS-DOS.
thornton
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