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rfunk at 07:34pm on 01/11/2006
rfunk at 07:34pm on 01/11/2006You may have heard about the confusion between UTube.com (a Toledo tubing manufacturer) and YouTube.com (the video-sharing site). UTube.com got 68 million hits on their site in August. (The web server I run at work got a total of about 4.5 million hits that same month, across all the sites we host.) The UTube people are so upset about getting web traffic intended for YouTube that they're filing a lawsuit against YouTube demanding that YouTube stop using the youtube.com or pay Universal Tube's cost for creating a new domain.
The latest news blurb (a PDF!) at UTube's site says that the traffic keeps shutting down their website, and they've had to move to different servers four different times recently.
I got curious: If they're changing servers due to the traffic, surely they're moving to a different (more efficient) technology that can handle the traffic better than their original technology, right? Well, a little bit. In early October they switched from Windows 2000 running the Microsoft IIS 5.0 web server to Windows 2003 running the Microsoft IIS 6.0 web server, and since then seem to just switch hardware.
By comparison, YouTube.com is running Linux and the Apache web server. (Of course they probably have a lot of hardware too.) Their job listings give more hints about the technologies they use.
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I'm almost tempted to offer my or my company's services to Universal Tube.
The latest news blurb (a PDF!) at UTube's site says that the traffic keeps shutting down their website, and they've had to move to different servers four different times recently.
I got curious: If they're changing servers due to the traffic, surely they're moving to a different (more efficient) technology that can handle the traffic better than their original technology, right? Well, a little bit. In early October they switched from Windows 2000 running the Microsoft IIS 5.0 web server to Windows 2003 running the Microsoft IIS 6.0 web server, and since then seem to just switch hardware.
By comparison, YouTube.com is running Linux and the Apache web server. (Of course they probably have a lot of hardware too.) Their job listings give more hints about the technologies they use.
( Read more... )
I'm almost tempted to offer my or my company's services to Universal Tube.
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