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This didn't seem to get much press, or maybe I missed it. ArsTechnica announced their re-design about a week ago (kudos on the new design; it's much better than the old one). Buried at the end in the FAQ we find this:
Q. What are you running all of this on?
A. The content portion of Ars Technica, aka the front page, now runs on a cluster of Windows 2003 Web Edition servers, with a SQL Server 2000 back-end. The web front ends are generic boxes, but the backend SQL server is a Dell PowerEdge with Dual Xeon 2.8GHz processors, 2GB of RAM, and a large RAID 5 array (and redundant power).
Q. Why did you change over from Linux?
A. This is a loaded question, so we'll be brief. Ars started out on Windows NT back in 1998, but shortly after that we moved to FreeBSD, and then later, Linux. We ran Linux until March of 2004, when we made the move to Windows Servers. Linux and Apache had served us quite well, but when we turned to look at building our new CMS, .NET was simply so attractive for our needs that we felt it warranted the switch. If there are enough requests, we may do an article later documenting our thought process, but for now I'll say that the decision was largely a programming one, with the added benefit of the fact that more of us support Windows in our real lives than Linux.
Very interesting... they could've chosen anything, but they chose ASP.NET for their new CMS system. Warts and flaws and all, I still think ASP.NET is hands down the best web development platform out there, and now so does a bunch of non-Microsoft biased highly techie folks, too. I wonder how common this will become?
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