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

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by iamyoohoo • 19 years ago

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royal.pingdom.com

alaskamiller• 19 years ago

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

jsrfded• 19 years ago

Really?

oditogre• 19 years ago

Nobody uses PostgreSQL?

DocSavage• 19 years ago

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

aston• 19 years ago

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.

dannyroa• 19 years ago

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

jemroc• 19 years ago

builtwith.com

Zak• 19 years ago

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

nickb• 19 years ago

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

ptn• 19 years ago

It's just curiosity.

joe• 19 years ago

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".

lst• 19 years ago

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

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

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