What nine of the world's largest websites are running on

Posted by iamyoohoo on Friday September 28, 2007 @03:06PM
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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by oditogre on Friday September 28, 2007 @06:16PM (#60841)

Nobody uses PostgreSQL?

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by DocSavage on Friday September 28, 2007 @07:55PM (#60889)

Yeah, that really stood out. Seven out of 8 or 9 used MySQL.

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by aston on Saturday September 29, 2007 @02:30AM (#60992)

It's not so suprising. You don't really need the overhead PostgreSQL brings in for most web applications. You probably don't need the overhead of SQL Server, either.

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by dannyroa on Friday September 28, 2007 @06:23PM (#60844)

Anybody remember the site that scans a web site and returns its technology profile (e.g. javascript libraries used, server, language, etc.)?

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by jemroc on Friday September 28, 2007 @07:20PM (#60872)

builtwith.com

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by Zak on Sunday September 30, 2007 @03:08AM (#61245)

I'm not impressed. It thought a site running Hunchentoot behind mod-lisp was PHP-based.

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by nickb on Saturday September 29, 2007 @12:07AM (#60951)

This sort of stuff is irrelevant. These sites are not successful because of the backend.

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by joe on Saturday September 29, 2007 @02:08PM (#61089)

I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone's implying that these sites' success is due to their backends. However, backend choices do affect uptime, scalability, ease of development, ease of finding/fixing bugs, etc. So I would certainly take issue with your claim that "this sort of stuff is irrelevant".

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by ptn on Saturday September 29, 2007 @12:50AM (#60958)

It's just curiosity.

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by alaskamiller on Friday September 28, 2007 @05:47PM (#60828)

I'm just surprised LISP isn't on there.

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by jsrfded on Saturday September 29, 2007 @02:22AM (#60989)

Really?

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Re:What nine of the world's largest websites are running on by lst on Saturday September 29, 2007 @08:14AM (#61033)

I'd be really interested in their exact definition of 'large'.

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