What nine of the world's largest websites are running on(royal.pingdom.com)

32 pointsby iamyoohoo19 anni fa12 comments

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

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13 comments

oditogre19 anni fa

Nobody uses PostgreSQL?

DocSavage19 anni fa

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

aston19 anni fa

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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dannyroa19 anni fa

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

jemroc19 anni fa

builtwith.com

Zak19 anni fa

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

nickb19 anni fa

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

joe19 anni fa

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".

ptn19 anni fa

It's just curiosity.

alaskamiller19 anni fa

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

jsrfded19 anni fa

Really?

lst19 anni fa

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