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I think they may be overestimating the value of a Microsoft stack. I think it's reasonable to get 16 million pageviews with no load on almost any popular open source stack if you are using 2 dedicated boxes each with 8-core Xeons.

If they were having almost no load on low-end virtualized hardware running a Microsoft stack, that would be noteworthy.

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The article mentions their 8 core Xeon running SQL server only cost $5,000 in licensing... Either the article is wrong or they haven't appropriately licensed their SQL server. Microsoft is pretty explicit that for web-facing applications you must use per-processor licensing. Which would mean the licensing on that server should have cost $40,000 for SQL Server Standard edition.

Ugh, I shouldn't post before I've had my morning coffee.

Microsoft's licensing policy is per processor, not per core. Please disregard my statement above.

(I'm off to distribute some corrective lashings now.)

I noticed that also - even at 5k/license that is buying at least 2 more dedicated boxes to throw (name your FOSS RDBMS) on

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