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- Zippo, on 11/10/2008, -3/+58Simply put, Linux is much more efficient, secure, and flexible. Not to mention there's no retarded licensing fees to pay.
- manutd8611, on 11/10/2008, -2/+27Linux - "Free as in Dog *****!"
- mattyx, on 11/10/2008, -0/+19Forget digg and wikipedia; if it's good enough for Google, it's good enough for me.
- inactive, on 11/10/2008, -2/+18Ideal World would actually be:
User, Server, Legacy, Embedded Dildo OS = Linux - LordBacon, on 11/10/2008, -9/+18Propaganda. Nice.
- DeathJux, on 11/10/2008, -2/+11Seems like you'd have to smoke a retarded amount of PCP to go for Windows-based web hosting, in any capacity for anything, unless it's pulling double-duty with Exchange or some *****.
- kalagmail, on 11/10/2008, -11/+18And Linux is cheaper than Windows!!!!!!
- trenchancy, on 11/10/2008, -1/+8I'm fairly sure that anyone who has even bought shared hosting before knows that Unix is superior for server environments.
I can probably count the number of people I know who use Windows/Mac servers on my fingers. - lazyfisherman, on 11/11/2008, -1/+7I guess this is why Markus the Plenty of Fish.com guy was able to run his entire dating site serving millions of unique visitors on only two Windows-based servers for so many years. Because Windows and ASP.NET can't scale well at all.
I'm no genius but I suspect that if you gave actual geniuses Windows and Linux servers, they would figure out how to make both of them "snappy and responsive" under heavy traffic loads. - harlowsmonkeys, on 11/11/2008, -0/+6Interesting, but not really all that informative, as it doesn't like any sites that couldn't have been done well on Windows or OS X.
For comparison, msn.com has more traffic than Wikipedia, and runs on Windows. Plenty of Fish server about 5 times as many page views per month as Digg, and runs on Windows, using just two load balanced Windows web servers and 3 database servers, all run by a single guy.
Apple has more traffic than Digg, too, and does it on OS X. And Apple's is a much more difficult site--they are doing something over 40 *sales* per second. That involves data base writes, which is a lot harder to scale, and also interacting with external credit card processors. - kingmanic, on 11/10/2008, -1/+6For the same hardware you can run three times the load on a Linux server and the tenancy is you'll also have less downtime. We use an openBSD (*nix) server which has not been down at all since I started to work here while in the same time frame our windows host has been down for one reason or another two dozen times.
- feignNU, on 11/11/2008, -0/+5rA-*****-men, brother.
- jsmithers, on 11/10/2008, -8/+13> and it wasn't Windows
No kidding! Man, if I used ANY Microsoft technology for a website and it had more than a few users, I'd just be asking for a major FAIL.
As an ex sys admin for the BBC, and for Verio when it was the world's largest webhost a few years back (I helped build and deploy their first European datacenter) I knew, and it was common knowledge, that you DIDN'T TOUCH WINDOWS WITH A VERY LONG POLE.
Microsoft fan boys can say what they like, but *where it really matters*, if you don't want MAJOR failure, you ALWAYS choose anything other than a Microsoft product, and preferably Linux.
Linux FTW. (If only home users the world over understood the benefits, the world would be a much better place) - BassCadet, on 11/11/2008, -3/+8Digg is snappy and responsive?
Both Windows and Linux are snappy and responsive...it's the crapware you install on it that can be slow. The anti-Windows propaganda machine rolls on... - cdawzrd, on 11/10/2008, -1/+6Meh. This article wasn't interesting or new enough for a technical reader, yet too technical for a non-technical reader.
- jsmithers, on 11/10/2008, -5/+9Ubuntu. Seriously. It's not just a desktop OS.
- uknowwhoibe, on 11/11/2008, -1/+5I actually enjoyed the story, being not a very technical guy.
Informative and interesting. - stainsby, on 11/11/2008, -1/+5I agree - we use it for production servers.
- larryjr88, on 11/10/2008, -21/+25User = Windows
Server = Linux
This isn't exactly a newly discovered fact. - karolisonline, on 11/11/2008, -0/+4freeBSD?
- flashingcurser, on 11/10/2008, -0/+4Even with exchange it's still pretty nice to have a postfix-- amavis, clamav, spamassasin smtp proxy. If you want it to enable outgoing smtp from the internet all you have to do is turn on imap on the exchange server, then use remote imap (rimap) for postfix authentication.
- mukund, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3Good work linux.
But I read the last comment which says
"I'm a big linux supporter and major digg reader, but to choose digg as an example of good use of linux and stability is a joke. How many of us have pulled up digg expecting to see a list of articles and gotten the "Under going maintenance" page with a link to the staff's favorite sites. This has happened to me enough to know the page and each time for more than a few seconds of outage.
The fact is (like another comment mentioned) websites backends are designed around what the staff knows. I don't think Linux vs Windows in this case has anything to do with the reliability as does the software running on top of it; if the software is tolerant to a host going out of commission suddenly then what's the difference if a host has to be rebooted every 24 hours or once a year.
How many times have you been to msn.com and seen a maintenance page?"
How True - inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3I love how PC is a hardware architecture that can run the OSX, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
You meant to say Windows, I'm guessing.
Also, who's killing for religious equality? All the killings happening in the world are for dominance, not equality. - trenchancy, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3CentOS is essentially the same as Red Hat, just without the price tag.
- brundlefly76, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3for ***** sakes linux has been the go-to web platform since the internet hit mass popularity - why the ***** is this news?
- domenics, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3FTFA: Digg's running apache?
I wonder why? What about lighttpd of nginx? nginx is especially interesting, we've cut down base per-thread memory consumption more than six-fold replacing apache with it. - martynda, on 11/11/2008, -1/+4Not technical?! Guys, get the pitchforks and torches!
I kid. - daftman, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3People choose apache for large scale production because it is proven, mature, stable and has lot of *support* on the net.
nginx or lightty could be better technically but there are not enough knowledge base out there for it. - mooninite, on 11/10/2008, -1/+4CentOS is the same as Red Hat. Perhaps you need to do a little more reading.
- inactive, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3If you read the article, you'd see that these sites used Ubuntu and Debian. As an old hand Unix admin, I can make the same recommendation.
- Barackalypse, on 11/11/2008, -0/+3A better testimony would be what Visa, Mastercard, or Amex run their credit card processing networks on. They are truly mission critical and have the financial resources to seek out the best software. How an Internet startup like Digg chooses to operate doesn't necessarily make it the best way to go for someone who could actually afford something more expensive than free.
- weeFred, on 11/11/2008, -0/+2"there is 96% chance you are using it right now" - Probably not as this is digg, which I'd bet has higher than average linux and mac user traffic.
- Ii_0o_il, on 11/10/2008, -2/+4AS IF NOBODY ALREADY KNEW THIS?!
- feignNU, on 11/11/2008, -0/+2Thank you thank you thank you for pointing that out. I swear to god, the worst thing Apple has ever done is conflate "PC" with "windows" in their advertising. That alone has probably set general computer literacy back 10 years.
- 4321234, on 11/10/2008, -0/+2Expecting an article about HALinux, I left enraged.
- ACiDGRiM, on 11/10/2008, -2/+4I toyed with server 2008 to get an enterprise level network running in my home network. Now I'm getting really excited for my new dell server to ship so I can migrate to Red Hat in December.
On that note, what distro is a good server platform? Is CENTOS any good? - zeptobyte, on 11/10/2008, -2/+4What? People use Linux for servers? I did not know this! Thank you, itwire.com, for sharing with us this valuable fact!
- n8dude, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1I say live.
- mikemx, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1yeh since paying for stuff is retarded you *****
bet you wish food was free like in old communism states - mikemx, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1***** doesnt realise the percentage of iss servers out there
amazing how lintards choose to avoid the truth - seandfeeney, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1Working for an enterprise storage company, Linux is the least of the unix / unix-like operating systems to be considered "high availability" If you are just running a website off of them then fine, they will stay running for a long time without an issue but, if you have to present new storage, you will need to reboot for linux to rescan for new devices.
- mikemx, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1which is why only 1% of desktops use linsux
- miggyb, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1***** yeah.
[miggyb@mudkip ~]$ uptime
12:16AM up 65 days, 15:48, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - mikemx, on 11/14/2008, -0/+1the world would be a better place if preachy linux zealots threw themselves off cliffs
- larsalan, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1digg is a debian built system.
//i thinks - tgilbert, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1I run a moderately busy web site for my company with about 500,000 users. We run it on 12 application servers running windows server 2003, plus ASP.NET. I am also a big Linux fan and run it at home. However IMHO when it comes to development platforms, its tough to beat .NET framework.
ASP.NET is the killer app for IIS- we build sophisticated front end financial applications and I can't imagine writing it in anything other than C#/ASP.NET/WCF etc. Perhaps one day Mono-project will allow us to run our .NET from Linux but until then... I have to live with IIS. - evilgourmet, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1WOOHOO!
TOP 4%!!! - Cupantae, on 11/11/2008, -0/+1Hmm...why WOULD X11 not start, exactly?
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