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Bill Gates’ New Website The Gates Notes Runs on a Linux Server

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The title should be that Bill Gate's blog uses a Linux CDN provided by Akamai with its ISS web-server. At least that is somewhat worthy of discussion.

This is much ado about nothing. Here is a quote from the referenced TechCrunch article:

"The results also say that web server is Microsoft-IIS/7.0. That doesn’t sound right, so what gives? Well, it turns out that because Gates is using Akamai to mirror his sites’ content in the event of massive traffic (or more specifically, something like a DDoS attack), this data is being filtered through there. Akamai uses Linux for its servers, so that’s what OS is being passed back to Netcraft."

Nothing, indeed. I thought I was clever in 2000 when I had IIS "running on" Linux simply because I was using Linux as a reverse-proxy to my IIS box, just for fun (if learning Linux by starting with Slackware could have been considered fun).

This is a somewhat related question. I read that IIS was down to 24% marketshare and was surprised because I remember reading scare stories about Apache being overtaken not that long ago.

The latest Netcraft survey shows a huge hump where IIS has risen and fallen over the last three years, and the active sites (a newer metric that excludes placeholder sites) show a rapid rise for IIS before totally falling off a cliff after April 2009.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/01/07/january_2010_we...

Does anyone know what caused these trends? I paged through the monthly updates but Netcraft doesn't seem to comment at all on IIS losing half of its active sites, about 16 million, over just 6 months.

Doesn't seem to be hn worthy. flagged.

Funny, they changed the original article and have now added the quote from the TechCrunch article.

So, what? In 90s hotmail.com worked on FreeBSD for years.

Wow. I didn't realize you could run Microsoft IIS on Linux. :-\

Somebody needs to learn how to read a Netcraft response, I think. There's probably just a load balancer or something in front of it running Linux.

In other news turns out when i'm brushing my teeth in the morning the other person in the mirror is a "reflection" and in fact I am not temporarily cloned every morning.

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